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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more personal level, students confronted the consequences of another type of diversity for which Harvard so often congratulates itself. Masters this year requested a more random system of assigning students to the houses to avoid what they said was growing segregation by extracurricular or academic interest. The controversial plan foundered, but Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 plans to reintroduce it this fall in different form...
...when Dead Poets Society takes place, prep schools of this type were basically boot camps for male Establishment offspring. They were also essential literary institutions. In those days hardly a month seemed to pass without the publication of some novel recounting a hormonal fire storm in one of these supposedly serene, and unquestionably enviable,settings. As traditional private schools changed, the fictional form they spawned fell into disuse, and, frankly, that engenders no deep sense of loss. All that quivering sensitivity! All that earnest soul-searching! All that whining about absent and misunderstanding parents, present and misunderstanding trigonometry teachers...
...based in Los Angeles, Reingold enjoys peering ahead into the Pacific century. "Our main weakness in dealing with Japan is that we have not really understood it or had a coherent policy," he says. "We need to realize that its political economy is a type unto itself. It's not Keynesian or Marxist. It's Japanese...
...before protesting, "I thought the Cold War was supposed to be over." Back in the Soviet Union, seeking out the woman who had forwarded the presumptive secrets and trying to get at their source, he encounters glasnost and perestroika everywhere he turns. One Moscow literary type wonders, "When will they start repressing us again to make us comfortable?" Another informs him, "We have no more problems! In the old days we had to assume that everything was a mess! Now we can look in our newspapers and confirm it!" Barley must tunnel beneath this thawing surface, test...
...sure if I did enough, or if I should have done anything other than my job, to change this perception. I can look around and see that there are not many more Blacks on the paper than when I began in December 1985. Although I am not the type to carry the torch, and lead Blacks to the Promised Land of journalism, I am, in some ways, disappointed in myself...