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...Charles U. Daly talk about upgrading President Bok's public image come from the same administration as the memo on Harvard's attitude toward its investment in Portuguese Africa, written by Stephen B. Farber '63 and published by The Gazette in the spring of 1972, That memo was solemn and uninspired...
...press often seems drunk in the heady euphoria of its chance successes, when the most menial cub "stringer" has his pet theory about the role of journalism in society. No wonder the editors seem to feel insecure about this sort of breezy, down-home folksy journalism amidst their solemn big brothers at The Times with their grave headlines about politics and foreign policy. Cringing at that phrase from the high school newspaper--"the human interest story"--the editors seem to feel that they had to justify it by dressing it up in some pseudoscientific jargon, hoping for sociological and historical...
...achieve fairness in a historic and profoundly disagreeable job. At last Nixon was forced to yield up what became known as "the smoking gun"-a previously deleted passage of the transcripts in which the President flatly ordered an FBI-CIA cover-up of Watergate; it contradicted his repeated solemn assurances of his innocence and condemned him to at least a charge of obstruction of justice...
...play gets off to a slow start despite a madrigal-like solemn number about wives swearing to deny their husbands "entrance." At first, it's even difficult to hear some of the lines. But once the basic comic situation of the play is revealed--the male characters walking around with painfully exaggerated erections--things hit their stride. The translation seems to be William Arrowsmith's and usually it works out very well, and every once in a while the actors make it too clear it is a verse translation. And jokes the cast occasionally added--like one Athenian's wife...
Even some of the President's supporters worry that he is devoting more energy to matters of style-such as reviewing Armistice Day troops at the Arc de Triomphe on foot rather than by car, and approving a more solemn version of La Marseillaise (TIME, Nov. 18) -than to problems of substance. In fact, Giscard's "relaxed" presidency has produced some creative reforms in non-economic areas. Last week, for example, his Cabinet approved a new liberal abortion law, votes for 18-year-olds and an end to wiretapping...