Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...detriment brought to the South African people by the presence of American corporations, and that careful, case-by-case scrutiny is therefore required, before a decision can be made regarding shareholder resolutions calling for corporate withdrawal. I contend that, on the contrary, there is a compelling case for the view that all American business in South Africa is, in and of itself, harmful to the fight against apartheid, and that Harvard should therefore support such resolutions in all corporations doing business in that country...
Although it is my personal view that the weight of the argument: lies decisively on the side of withdrawal, I acknowledge that there is room for disagreement regarding the potential benefits of progressive employment practices, the importance of American investment and technology to South Africa, the usefulness of a positive American example to other firms, and other points discussed in your report of last April. Of crucial importance, however, is an argument to which your report gives a passing allusion, but no refutation: the effect of American investments in South Africa on American foreign policy...
...Bach Society Orchestra is, in my view, about the most reliably good music group on campus. Its programming is excellent and its performing solid. Bach Soc does not disappoint this year, either. Roy Kogan, a fine soloist who excelled last season, plays Schumann's Piano Concerto in October, Jennie Shames appears in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and the rest of the year includes Britten, Mahler, Chausson and some workhorse Beethoven. Bach doesn't figure in much, but that's the paradox of this orchestra -- it's supposed to play the Brandenburgs, but instead bombards you with great nineteenth and twentieth...
Grayson disputes the conventional wisdom that productivity has been hurt by social change. The surge of women, nonwhites and the young into the job market has not had much impact, in his view. C. Jackson Grayson Jr. "I've heard all the rhetoric about we-don't-want-to-work-hard-any-more, and I don't believe it. The work ethic has not been lost. What has happened is that autocratic, bureaucratic organizations in business and public service have suppressed the desires and ability of the individual to feel that he or she is contributing. People...
...That statement was made in 1963 by a man well qualified to comment on the awarding of the world's most prestigious scientific prizes: Swedish Chemist Arne Tiselius, a Nobel laureate and former president of the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation. Tiselius' view, widely supported in the scientific community, has now been expanded and documented by a U.S. researcher. In an American Scientist article timed to precede the announcement next month of the annual Nobel awards, Columbia University Sociologist Harriet Zuckerman warns that the guiding policies of the Stockholm selection committees "threaten to undermine the great prestige and legitimacy...