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...overflow, yarns about wharf characters and slices of local history. It is the kind of mind that can see The Story of O and Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain as two monastic classics and, like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends of his chapters are models of tart New England wit and his conversations with his friends have the unworldly, though undeniably human quality of Alice in Wonderland or Edward Lear's poem about the Jumblies-who, incidentally, did their drifting in a sieve...
...having learned to play its games with a real sense of bravura. Gassed on the streets of Chicago during the '68 demonstrations, Rosen's mind flashes from childhood memories of cajoling his parent's friends with smiles and jokes and pleasant words to playing the martyr scenes for the sake of the familiar suburban mother-type behind the oversized wheel of the Camaro before which he stumbles in temporary confusion. "I am so accustomed to my mastery of mothers that this sudden and irritating turn of events unnerves me," he admits...
...rather than graduate students to whom Kissinger was most attracted. And it was a striking fondness, borne of the fact that undergraduates were intelligent and creative young people whose minds and interests were as yet unformed, not the graspy, greedy things who needed his association and friendship for the sake of their careers. Kissinger spent more time with undergraduates and, for a period, lunched with a group of them regularly. But by the late '60's, his non-Cambridge interests so dominated him that he saw little of academic life...
...really a matter of priorities. If Harvard University, especially with a new President, chooses to take the direction of education for self-actualization, for personal growth, for its own sake at the undergraduate level, a science center as was originally planned would be a top priority. If the concentration of efforts in undergraduate education is preparation for a professional career in the sciences, then this is a frill," Kothavala said...
...restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around eventually if only the U.S. and other major powers would quit meddling. "For God's sake," pleads a top Israeli diplomat, "let us bargain with the Egyptians. Don't force us into things...