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Perhaps the world of the late 20th century is so interrelated as to preclude such a straightforward approach to foreign policy. However, the best solutions to the most complex problems still present themselves in the simplest form...
...performances are of a piece, which is something of a surprise since the cast blends amateurs and professionals in the leading roles. Perhaps the simplest thing to say about them is that they all meet somewhere in the middle, at an agreeable semipro level. Hemingway has retained the sweet artlessness of her Manhattan days, while Donnelly, a sometime Olympic hurdler, makes something pleasantly older-sisterish of her role. Kenny Moore, the SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer (and former Olympic marathon competitor), has a goofy grace as the man who sets Hemingway on the straight path, while Scott Glenn, the memorable heavy...
...simplest definition, exaggeration is a form of lying. Is it therefore bad, an instrument of untruth? It depends. Sometimes the artful exaggeration is a way of evoking, of discovering, an essential truth lying below the prosaic surface of things. The very idea of exaggeration presupposes some discoverable, objective reality; the task of the human eye and scientific intelligence, in this classic view, would be to describe that reality as dispassionately and accurately as possible. The world has its being outside the fanciful brain of the exaggerator, a romantic whose business is to distort reality. Still, in the late 20th century...
...went the opposite route of most anthropologists," Moore said. "I didn't look for the simplest society." The Chagga are good subjects for research, she said, because in the early 1900s a missionary documented their early history, which provides an insight into the more recent changes in their culture...
Oleg Grabar, the maestro of Fine Arts 13, would like to do a little travelling himself--a week in Florida or Tahiti is his version of the ideal Christmas gift. And the simplest request of all comes form Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, the Government professor whose average grades are legendary for their coincidence with his middle initial--a nice bottle of cognac is his gift of choice. Try the Harvard Pro, Gov jocks...