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...measure of prophecy simply must be part of our daily and weekly business. Much of our effort is devoted to finding out what happened and making it clear; but, inevitably, we must also face the question of what will happen next. We do so by the stories we select, the details we emphasize, the speculation we report, the directions in which we point, as well as by outright forecast. Everyone on our staff recalls his own favorite prediction, be it the precise forecast of the end of the American retreat in Korea, or Ike's nomination...
There was a day when big-time swingers in their spats and waistcoats used to go to a Broadway show, look over the girls and select the ones they would have, like lobsters from a tank. William Randolph Hearst acquired Marion Davies that way. But that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue...
...pleased. And so began my experience of Harvard. Often I recalled the sick feeling I had that first night when I came to Harvard alone--my first trip east of Chicago--and was confronted with the incredible, if perhaps--may I add this now?--slightly pretentious erudition of a select group of Harvard plumbers, clearly much better prepared for what lay ahead than I. But may I also say that the great respect I acquired for Harvard plumbers at that time, though it may have changed character, has never been diminished in even slight degree by prolonged association with them...
...World War II, a select Faculty committee recommended a program of "general education" designed to solve most of the problems which faced Harvard College--aside from the lack of dormitory space. The re-report was received enthusiastically, and the program it recommended put into effect with only minor changes...
...useful, the Council will have to shift substantially its current focus. Instead of publicly fighting the small issues that come up each year, it should select probably no more than half a dozen basic questions and subject them to careful and informed analysis. Council reports should have the same thoroughness that characterizes studies of the Visiting Committees of the Overseers...