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Crile doesn't publish by himself. Crile has me to deal with. He has his associate producer to deal with. He has his superior editors to deal with. He's got to prove every fact that's in that broadcast. The fact of the matter is, that when push came to prove in that courtroom under oath, it turned out that every fact in that broadcast was accurate...
HOWEVER, THROUGHOUT THEIR conversations, Sartre maintains a distance. Not only is he the "I" the constant focus of the conversation, but he removes himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as superior. At one point, he portrays himself as a teacher figure for his companions: "I amuse myself by teaching them freedom. So that my speeches, at first purely negative and referring to a shared morality, become positive indoctrinations." He is at once with his comrades and above them, companion and teacher...
This is not to say that Harvard affiliates and non-affiliates alike won't eat it up--its publication date is today and it's already climbing the bestseller lists--or that it has no redeeming value. Segal does more with his stereotypes than, say, Alice Adams '46, whose Superior Women, a tale of Radcliffe in the '40s and the havoc it wreaked later, all but announced its conclusion halfway through. There are a few surprises...
Once admitted to Harvard, students were expected to treat administrative gurus with reverence befitting "their parents," Schollars could not speak in the presence of the president, tutors, fellows or other superior types, and no "disorderly gainsaying" was permitted. Anyone chanting "Derek Bok, get the word, this is not Johannesburg," could also expect strict censure, especially if he forgot to translate it into Latin...
...ideal society, a society defined by America. Along with missionary ideology. Baritz describes an American confidence based on technology. Our belief, fortified by technique, makes us strong, but our machines make us invincible. "As Hiroshima demonstrated conclusively, we could think of ourselves not only as morally superior, but as the most powerful nation in history." Americans did not conceive that it was possible for this country to lose a war against anyone, certainly not poor, ignorant peasants...