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...report: "Harvard's Riesman rightly sneers at the spectacle of '150 Avises trying to become a Hertz.' " The quote is out of context; no sneerer, I was discussing how the many upwardly mobile institutions were raising faculty salaries and making recruitment difficult for the less affluent. I was not disparaging academic entrepreneurship, as my sympathy for Gould's ambitions should make clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1968 | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...Sneerer & a Snarler." Ruth Fischer got into Communism in Vienna in 1918. She was 22, university-educated, and aflame with zeal to remake the world. In the Austrian Communist Party she held Card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Of All the Virtues . . . | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...became chairman of the Berlin section of Germany's new Communist Party. At 28 she was the party's loudest voice in the Reichstag. One correspondent described her thus: "She's a sneerer and a snarler. She sits on the far left of the house, interrupting Stresemann, Ludendorff and Tirpitz with cries of Phooy. She is fat ... and addresses the house with a vaudevillian shimmy that is unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Of All the Virtues . . . | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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