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What's a Nice Boy Like You Doing in the Bushes is Wolff's daily chronicle of his two years in the minors. It's one of those nice, easy-to-read, amusing sports biographies that doesn't try to define baseball vis-a-vis life...
This fear of arousing antagonism is echoed in Harrington's stand vis-a-vis the trade unions While indicating his wariness of "left-wing outside-agitator-inspired wildcats," he concedes that there are instances, for example in the Lordstown auto plants, of genuine rank-and-file worker disenchantment with union leadership and a real desire on the part of workers to participate in the organization of the work process. "And I supported that strike," Harrington says. "But we're in a tough position. It's the same thing in New York, where the civil servants crossed the teachers' picket lines...
...other hand, he said that last year's shake-up--in which the department fired three popular instructors and declined to promote two others--was a reassuring sign that Vis Stud will have a "normal turnover in its junior faculty...
Members of other Harvard departments have criticized Vis Stud for ignoring traditional academic standards. In particular, some faculty members charge that grading in Vis Stud is lax, and that the department's instructors lack proper academic credentials...
...Faculty member, who asked not to be identified, said last week that low grading standard's in Vis Stud are "understandable...