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...case did not sit well with some of his academic colleagues. They point out that over the past two decades Harvard, Berkeley and a host of other schools, wary of Government influence but still eager for federal research grants, have set up policies to ensure that no research is secret or subject to prior review. Now the Safran incident has resurrected the thorny question of whose research money is clean and whose is not. One of the Harvard center's defrocked committeemen, Richard N. Frye, denounced the Spence report as a "whitewash" that ignored the broad effect on scholarly integrity...
...between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt: Was nasty Fiona the only mole in the British secret service? In this most devious of games, can any side truly win game, set and match? --By John Skow Best Sellers...
...Stephen exhibits no outrage or deep sense of betrayal at having been an unwitting partisan in the cold war. He suggests that the iniquity lay not in CIA sponsorship but in that support's having been kept secret. The reader may wonder whether he is being evasive or naive: it is, after all, the agency's job to be secretive. Late in the journals, Spender traces the devolution of his political thinking, from innocence to idealism to resignation and concludes that "the world is run by a special race of monsters...
Krainik's secret is "constant vigilance." She pares each opera's budget line by line, until expenses are balanced by box-office receipts and fund raising. This may seem like mere common sense, but in opera it is a radical approach. Of necessity, she chooses the repertoire carefully and conservatively, this season balancing ham-and-eggers like Butterfly and Traviata with Otello and Die Meistersinger, the lone German entry. "What I've learned," says Krainik, "is that you can have all the art you want if you've got the money...
...coldest day in Rex Scouten's life may also have been his best. He came to the capital as a Secret Service agent out of Detroit to help in Harry Truman's 1949 Inauguration. He shivered as he stood by the Inaugural stand. Yet the great celebration awed the Michigan farm boy, who recalled last week, "I never thought I would ever get to Washington." He has been there, at the very center, ever since...