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...Harvard, I dealt with a lot of light and middleweight minds. It is a pleasure to come into contact with a real heavyweight mind, such as that of Huey, a man who has a great deal of genuine warmth and love for people and a very deep commitment to justice." Trivers said in the same interview
...Warsaw, the Pope fielded inquiries in six languages (English, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian, French) and managed a brief conversation with Wynn (in English, though the correspondent also speaks Italian and Arabic). "I touched his arm to get his attention," recounts Wynn. "Without looking-and typical of the personal warmth he exudes -John Paul grasped my hand, turned to me and gave me a warm smile as if we were old friends...
...frowns. There is no sense of emo tional conviction: it is as if she were making faces before an imaginary mirror. Too many years before the camera, perhaps, where her superbly expressive face, particularly her eyes, have been her fortune. A deeper defect is that she projects no wifely warmth or maternal affections. She treats Papa (George Hearn) like a stagehand who has wandered onto the set, and acts like a coolly efficient career woman with five pressing memos in front of her instead of five adoring children...
Although the Board insists that its programs like the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America--the foremost library of its kind in the U.S.--indirectly affect undergraduates by educating those who teach at Harvard, undergraduates say they derive little warmth from that fire. The real question, they say, is whether Radcliffe, having virtually achieved its goal of opening a Harvard education to women, should now fold itself into the Harvard Corporation, Pembroke-Brown style, or at least disassociate itself and its programs from Harvard...
...Hallie accompanies these testaments with philosophical reflections on the conscience of the community in a situation of unrelenting menace. In Le Chambon, he found, there worked a dedication to human life that transcended all religion and politics. It could be seen in stealthy heroics but also in the naive warmth of Trocmé's wife Magda: when two policemen came to arrest her husband, Mme. Trocmé invited them to have dinner before leaving. Friends later rebuked her: "How could you bring yourself to sit down to eat with these men who were there to take your husband away...