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...city, it was Tribe's name on Brooks' petition, more than any other, that drew attention to the matter. While the law professor was quick to repudiate his signature, the appearance lingered that the liberal, tolerant image of Harvard and Brattle St. was nothing more than a thin veneer...
...courageous and threatening move. Bell showed Cambridge and the world that the spirit and convictions of one man can make a difference. The threat that media attention might remove Harvard's thin veneer of multicultural correctness simply scares administrators silly...
...Symington was virtually unknown until he waged a state-of-the-art zoning fight, the first to use television ads. He may see the race as a grudge match against telegenic former Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, a Democratic candidate who fought his high-rise development. "Goddard is all glitzy veneer, all ambition, the John Lindsay of Arizona," says Symington. "Remember how New York went off the cliff...
Lloyd's superior acting abilities are confirmed in the second act. When his wife triumphs, he must abandon the veneer of harsh soldier and become a wimpering child. While within the play the transformation is abrupt and slightly unconvincing, Lloyd manages to maintain as much credibility playing an emotional ragdoll as he does portraying the assertive officer. Although The Captain's final speech is given within the confines of a straitjacket, Lloyd transcends these physical limitations and creates the play's most haunting moment...
That self-confident veneer is vintage Clancy. "I don't think Tom believes there's anything on this planet that he can't do," says Carroll. But even if he never gets to test his talents in government, Clancy has already performed a national service of sorts: more than any recent popular novelist he has sought to explain the military and its moral code to civilians. Such a voice was needed, for Viet Nam had created a barrier of estrangement between America's warrior class and the nation it serves. Tom Clancy's novels may be romanticized, but they have...