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...Quality-wise we can't be beat--what do we do for an encore?" says Hunt. "But as far as quantity is concerned, I'd like to see double or triple the participation we have now," he adds...
...Composition of the Student Body has pointed out, our recruitment and selection procedures are designed to yield a group of undergraduates as able and talented in varied ways as the nation can produce. Their parents may be rich or poor; they may be the sophisticated and city-wise children of New Yorkers or the graduates of tiny schools in rural New Mexico; some are ready to perform on the concert stage while others are superb athletes. What unites them are the values--or at least the judgments--of our selectors: each student must be able to pursue a demanding course...
There is a danger when a leader points out a direction and finds nobody willing to follow. As Henry Kissinger once put it: "A statesman who too far outruns the experience of his people will fail in achieving a domestic consensus, however wise his policies. [On the other hand], a statesman who limits his policies to the experience of his people is doomed to sterility...
...questions were often better than the answers, though as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man is answering one. Generally, print journalists knew their subjects better than electronic journalists; the best-balanced team of questioners were the three who queried the vice-presidential candidates; the best single questioner was Max Frankel, who exhibited the sharpness he will bring to the New York Times editorial page when he becomes its editor in January. His question to Ford produced the famous gaffe on Eastern Europe, which Frankel, unbelieving, gave Ford a chance to correct...
...well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise Old World man fills the title role of Mr. Sammler's Planet...