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...midweek he had regained his form. He began to counterpunch, denouncing by name an adversary he had loftily ignored in most of his appearances before the debate. "My opponent in this campaign has made a career out of weakening America's armed forces!" cried Reagan at the Ukrainian Cultural Center in Warren, Mich. Edward Rollins, director of the Reagan campaign, left no doubt that Reagan would voice this new tough line until the vote. Said Rollins: "The debate made Mondale a credible candidate. He took some of his negatives down. We have to put some negatives back...
DJED. Josyf Slipyj, 92, Roman Catholic Cardinal since 1965 and exiled leader of Ukrainian Catholics; in Rome. Imprisoned by the Soviets for 18 years, he was released in 1963 in a conciliatory gesture by he Kremlin to Pope John XXIII. But Slipyj remained unhappy about the Vatican's Ostpolitik, including its openings to the subservient Russian Orthodox Church. He campaigned publicly for the creation of a Ukrainian patriarchate, with himself it its head, and was bitter that both Paul VI and John Paul II denied him that out of deference to East-bloc relations...
There's whole lot of other interesting stuff too. Harvard has a lot of skeletons in the closet. Really, Like the Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute. Or the Institute on College Admissions (some people actually think that's what the whole summer school is about). There's also some interesting stuff that's not there--tenured professors from Harvard, for instance. I count eight on the summer school faculty listed towards the back of this book, but for the life of me I can't figure out what they all teach. Adam Ulam is cited in the back...
...enough of cynicism!. Now is the summer of all our content. Let a thousand flowers bloom. Get you to your Ukrainian Institute, and you to Wigglesworth Hall. And you enjoy your "Survey of Western Art 1300-Present," and you your "Financial Accounting." And you from West Palm Beach, Florida, meet your roommate from Omaha, Nebraska. May the admissions office choke on that ghastly word diversity, but Harvard Tradition, struggle as we may against it, is sure to bring us all down in the end anyhow. There is Vertias in what this book has to tell us after...
...Badenheim 1939 and The Age of Wonders, take place in prewar Austria. Tzili: The Story of a Life is a fictional account partly based on Appelfeld's escape from a concentration camp at the age of nine and his three years of hiding from the Nazis in the Ukrainian countryside...