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...committee, which was established by the Faculty last year to strengthen the expos program, may also recommend placing stricter limits on the size of expos sections, Evans said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Committee Considers Revising Expos | 11/15/1973 | See Source »

...these proceedings or troubled by their gimmickry and lack of realism. In The Eighth Day, the prizewinning novel that Wilder published in 1967, he has a character say: "It is the duty of old men to lie to the young. Let these encounter their own disillusions. We strengthen our souls, when young, on hope; the strength we acquire enables us later to endure despair as a Roman should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Liar | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

...Japan Institute is part of a broad program to strengthen East Asian studies at Harvard by consolidating the scattered East Asian facilities, establishing new professorships and expanding research on China, Korea, Vietnam, Inner Asia and Japan, according to the News Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toyota Contributes $1 Million For Harvard's Japan Institute | 11/2/1973 | See Source »

...those fortunate enough to gain my freedom from the "socialist paradise" beyond the wall. In 1969 I left behind a life full of fear, oppression and shades of gray, convinced that freedom was worth any price. Your article on East Germany [Oct. 1] served to strengthen my deep gratitude and appreciation for freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1973 | 10/29/1973 | See Source »

Accountability is essential to our rights. Yet the trend of recent years has been to weaken accountability and to strengthen that elitism which results from reposing decision-making authority in bureaucracies and groups beyond the reach of democratic recall...

Author: By Howard Phillips, | Title: The Quiet Mutiny In Government | 10/24/1973 | See Source »

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