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Time magazine, for instance, just published a call to look outside the usual political arena for our next Chief Executive, listing five university heads among the stoutest Presidential timber--our own Derek Bok, sadly, not among them. We could read this as an affront to the dignity of Harvard. Instead...
When newsmen swarmed around her, a stewardess offered to break up the impromptu press conference, but Mrs. Hearst declined the favor. Referring to the family's publishing firm, she said with a smile, "We're in the business of harassing people for a living too." Her first reaction...
Hopeful speeches, thankful prayers, and inspirational gospel and spiritual songs were all a part of the celebration last night of the "grand opening and dedication" of the new headquarters of the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center.
None of this, as it happens, makes much difference. Neither does a script that draws its inspiration from every stage musical ever mounted, then defies you to care. What can one make of writing that calls for the leading lady to meet her leading man, survey him coolly as he...
If Fischer plays in 1975, chess lovers will surely be thankful; if he does not, the game will nevertheless survive -for reasons well expressed in a passage Cockburn quotes from Stefan Zweig's last story, The Royal Game: "Is it not an offensively narrow construction to call chess a...