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...Brown Report opted for a fourth approach--instruction in design theory. The committee members recommended that Harvard teach those fundamental principles of design which they felt underlay...
...fear of death and disease often underlay the Kaufman style. Son of an overprotective mother whose first boy died in infancy, Kaufman grew up to be a devout hypochondriac. He ate oatmeal nearly every day of his life; he hated casual human contact and touching doorknobs. One of his many mistresses recalls that when she once innocently tasted his soup in a restaurant, Kaufman promptly ordered another bowl. When she asked him how he could kiss her, Kaufman replied, "Well, Miss S., your tasting my soup was one kind of risk. My kissing you was another. Let's concentrate...
Penney's unwavering faith in the copybook maxims of his youth roused skepticism in a mercenary age, but his credo underlay his success. At his death last week after a heart attack in Manhattan, Penney, 95, left a 1,660-store empire that he built without compromising the stiff principles he had absorbed from three generations of Baptist-preacher ancestors. He neither smoked nor drank, and for years demanded the same abstemious conduct from his employees. "I believe in adherence to the Golden Rule, faith in God and the country," he often said. "I would rather be known...
...which seems to suggest what underlay the general sluggishness Friday night: the political sands have shifted, the summer's enthusiasm has yielded to the fall's agony, and a few months' time has almost made irrelevant the central issue--the Vietnam war--which provoked the new politics in the first place...
...Kennedy himself was Heller's first student. This book, Heller's first since he left the Administration two years ago for a $50,000-a-year income as a private consultant and professor at the University of Minnesota, is an admirable account of the political machinations that underlay the recent age of discovery in economics-and welcome not least because he writes with crispness, clarity...