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During his two and a half years as Law dean, Bok gained a remarkable degree of admiration from a highly critical group of students and faculty. As the successor to Griswold, a crusty figure as dean, Bok managed to usher the School into the 70's with a minimum of abrasions and an impressive list of accomplishments...
...proof is the latest Jackie-book. Jacqueline Kennedy, The White House Years, by Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, a veteran writer and Jackie's longtime friend, is filled with verbatim memorandums that document Jacqueline's passionate perfectionism and attention to detail. She constantly bombarded the White House chief usher, J. Bernard West, with memos about minutiae. ("Also in the Blue Room make sure the braid on curtains is turned in as if braid faces out it gets sunburned . . . We need cigarette boxes -something to replace ones with flying fish and dollar bills on them.") Jacqueline designed a dream house...
...Will you make than an order?" Pasztor said. Cox complied, and McCarty, saying, "You're the boss," began to usher the invited guests-Anand Panyarachun, Thai Ambassador to Canada; Nguyed Hoan, an aide at the South Vietnamese embassy in Wash-ington; Dolf Droge, a White House Vietnam adviser; and I. Milton Sacks, professor of government at Brandets-toward the door...
...successor to Erwin N. Griswold, now U.S. Solicitor General, he managed to usher the Law School into the '70's with a minimum of bruises and an impressive list of accomplishments...
...There is no reason to suppose that modern civilizations must repeat this cataclysmic rhythm. It is these forms of exploitation and domination that are being challenged by the revolt of modern forces of production as a whole against bourgeois relations of production. And the fall of contemporary Bastilles will usher in a new and a different world. For as one contemplates a world in tumult and a world in travail, the riposte is inescapable: "And yet-it moves...