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...quickly swished an eight-foot jump shot, the crowd went wild-and kept on cheering, even though Bradley got off some amateurish passes and showed obvious rustiness at the foul line, making only two of six free throws. Next game, against the St. Louis Hawks, Bill looked sharper, sinking eight straight baskets. Then he blew everything in the final seconds with a clumsy jump shot that the Hawks recovered for a score themselves; that error cost the Knicks an overtime and eventually the game. His third time out, on Detroit's home court, Bradley seemed hesitant to shoot, wound...
Others, in different terms and with their own degree of subjectivity, assay contemporary patriotism in even sharper contrast. Historian Henry Steele Commager thinks the dissenters of 1967 are the real patriots. "Those who have the most affection for the country," he says, "are those who are most alienated from its present policies. Those who are not affectionate are those who are selling out the cities and failing to educate the poor. I don't think it shows any love for country to be spending all our money on bombs and ignoring the rest of our problems." At the other...
This line of attack on the History Department is not a new one. In the spring of 1966, 12 junior faculty members proposed major revisions in the tutorial program that would have shifted the program to a sharper focus on substantive historical questions. The tutors wanted to scrap the traditional sophomore tutorial (a survey of great historians from Herodotus on) and substitute a twoyear sequence in the student's particular field of interest. They also suggested that the department offer small conference courses on a carefully delineated historical problem as an alternative to the senior thesis...
...doing so, the Faculty told the students in no uncertain terms that despite their outrage over the Vietnamwar, protest at Harvard had to stay within limits. At this point, there is some reason to believe that any future obstructive demonstration will meet sharper retaliation from the University--probably severance...
...Whiskers. The book covers only four days in the '20s and '30s, and tells of a limited group of Soviet citizens-a handful of writers and professionals in the arts. But it raises sharper and more painful questions about Communism than does Pasternak's lugubrious historical panorama in Doctor Zhivago. Bulgakov's theme is political power as an adversary of human goodness. He uses a diabolic apparition that descends on Moscow to expose the corruption of those who play their assigned roles in Communist society...