Word: writings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Halberstam intended merely to write a pleasant fable of American political life, he would have done well as an entertainer; happily, he has done more than that, and succeeded on both counts. For Levine's uniqueness, his drive as a character, comes not from his charm or his vision or his money, but from his Jewishness. He exudes Jewishness--not the Orthodox-rabbi variety, but the every-day brand, with all the stereotypical strengths and weaknesses. But Levine is not a cardboard man; he snatches up all the stereotypes in himself and twists them, turns them around, shatters them...
...heart of the recruitment program, the student recruiters, has a new coordinator, Constance L. Rice '78, who succeeds Robert F. Young '74. Young was critical of the student recruiting program, saying that it lacked professionalism. Rice says this year students will have access to the office computers to write letters to a larger pool of potential applicants, and will be more coordinated with the efforts of administrators in Byerly Hall. "It will be a more cohesive effort," Rice says, adding that the student program now is recognized as a permanent part of the admissions office approach to minority recruiting...
...unions' lobbying tactics are oldfashioned. They still concentrate on buttonholing key legislators, such as committee chairmen. The increasingly assertive business lobby, in contrast, now does most of its campaigning around the country, urging owners of hardware stores, florist shops and bakeries to write their legislators. The flood of mail from back home played a key part in defeating the labor-reform bill...
...small band of theorists who can follow Hawking's intricate equations say that they are complex, elegant and inspired. This is all the more remarkable because he is unable to write them down. He must remember them as they flash into his mind, a feat that his colleague Werner Israel says is equivalent to Mozart's having composed an entire symphony in his head...
Harvard Political Review--This is a pretty serious quarterly magazine that features long articles by staff members on various political subjects--mostly national issues. Most of the writing is clear and incisive. Its political line is mostly straight liberal. The Political Review is a small organization, closely--one might say incestuously--linked to the Institute of Politics. If you write well and are an aspiring politico, this is the place...