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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard professors also serve the government without forsaking academia for Washington, as consultants and through various research contracts. At Harvard this has resulted in the invention of napalm in Mallinckrodt laboratory and the origination of the electronic battlefield by Professors Kaysen and Kistiakowsky. Many students are familiar with this sort of involvement of natural scientists in war research, but fewer realize that the same kind of complicity exists in the social sciences. An outstanding example of the latter is Samuel P. Huntington, who justified the practice of "forced-draft urbanization" in Vietnam. In the July 1968 issue of Foreign Affairs...
...film is certainly not tasteless, either in plot or in presentation, violence--and violence of a particularly bizarre and painful character--runs continually throughout Marathon Man. And if those in the audience are unprepared for, or less than anxious to partake in a two hour experience of this sort, the effect of the film will be unpleasant at best. With that warning, and noting that there are weapons of destruction employed in this film unlike any you have ever seen, know also that this screen version of the William Goldman novel is about as exciting and captivating a mystery...
Maybe there's some sort of market for this star-studded blather. But for heaven's sake let Woman's Wear Daily mine it. They do a much better job covering the celebs than More can do anyway. What More should devote itself to is something along the lines of its original creation, something in the spirit of A.J. Liebling's writings on the press. Liebling dealt in matters of substance, giving examples from around the country about what can happen when you have a one-paper town, or how publishers force their biases into print...
...When we came off the field after the game, I think we all realized that we had some things to sort out," she said yesterday. "We were much better than they were--that showed in the score--but we played with them. We gave them more than they deserved, and let them get away with things that we shouldn't have through our own defensive mistakes...
...temptation to make Descombes a heroic, larger-than-life figure; he is just a regular guy sweating out an embarrassing and very painful problem. And since he works out his trouble with only an ordinary intelligence and a rather blunt sensibility, he is all the more sympathetic. A stilted sort of friendship develops between Michel and the police commissioner, but the clockmaker breaks it off abruptly, unable to stomach the cop's complacent cynicism about the toadies who do the French bureaucracy's dirty work. In this, as in almost everything else, Michel is restrained. Matter-of-factly hoisting himself...