Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairer. But that kind of argument is less persuasuve with alumni, who measure the present Harvard against the male-dominated University they attended and remember fondly. One alumnus stood up during a symposium last month and said, "My experience is that this is a men's college, and I wonder if that isn't a value worth preserving." The rhetoric of equality by itself just won't convince these people...
...fact, Corliss Lamont has taken such admirable stances for half a century it is hard to be rough with him. A biography might have established the distance needed between the man and his actions to evaluate his philosophical and ideological stances. Yet one does wonder whether such a work on such an untenured maverick would sell with the committees that parcel out tenure to the sort of people who would write such a book. Despite such problems of point of view, Lamont emerges as "warm and agreeable" as the Humanism he dotes upon. And most of all, he comes clean...
Lenin is the focus of Act Two. His sealed train puffs out of Zurich and into Petrograd, and we watch, through Krupskaya's eyes, his years in power. Stoppard is chiefly interested in Lenin's views on art--we hear him passionately wonder why the young people only want to see the avant garde experimentalism of Mayadovsky and not good, solid Chekhov. The only art that could move Lenin to tears in his last years, Krupskaya tearfully recounts, was--and the spotlight falls on Carr once again playing it--the Appassionata sonata...
Thrice deceived, journalists may well wonder whether the President is sincere about maintaining an open Administration. "Either the intention to be open with the press wasn't really there, or it quickly became subordinate to other issues," says Charles W. Bailey, editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. In an editorial last week, the Chicago Daily News discerned "the cold, clear sign of a throwback to the Nixon White House era of manipulating the press secretary and the press while the inner circle of cronies decided what degree of candor was affordable...
...which is worse: to be so out of it, like both teams in any contest among the hapless ones--the Padres (41 games out, no less), Giants, Astros, Angels, or Braves--or to be a late-season casualty, a "choke", such as the Redlegs, Phillies, or Bosox. One must wonder if it isn't more fun for Angel fans to go to the park with the idea that their team might chop off the grasping fingers of a club trying to maintain a handhold on first place, than to see a squirming team such as Boston, whose only hustle...