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...deaths in less that a day, a succession of blasted cars, various broken windows and more scenes of cinematic head-banging that any modern director could ever conceive, Dean turns to his father and introduces the woman he has also fallen in love with during this 22-hour timespan. Says Dean: "Mom and Dad, this is Judy." So much for pathos--all you need is the right partner...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Two American Actors | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come a long way--maybe too long. "Graham Allison?" one K-School source asks rhetorically. "He's the consummate bureaucrat...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come a long way--maybe too long. "Graham Allison?" one K-School source asks rhetorically. "He's the consummate bureaucrat...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...among some as a distant but diligent manager. The K-School has come quite a ways since the summer of 1969, when a small group of "concerned faculty" patiently ironed out the details of a proposal for a public policy program. In that relatively short (in terms of Harvard) timespan, Allison too has come a long way--maybe too long. "Graham Allison?" one K-School source asks rhetorically. "He's the consummate bureaucrat...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: King Of the K-School | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...There is no tenable reason to try to grasp what every instant meant in terms of the one that preceded or followed. These are just images, moments that are frozen to be recalled, to bring back the sensual thrill of the there and then. They are fragments of a timespan to which goodbye is, finally, being said...

Author: By Peter Southwick, | Title: A Harvard Album: Last Page | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

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