Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...party-crashing shaggy beard from the graduate school greeted King Mailer with demands that he account for some vague if unforgivable "sell out"- publishing in Life, or something equally dreadful. Mailer awarded him a nickel's worth of evil-eye and walked away. An aggressive Nieman wife monopolized our guest at the cocktail hour, standing pelvis-to-pelvis, while everyone else stood apart to gape and shit-kick like Jimmy Stewart. A voice with liquor and maybe some jealousy in it said too loudly that Mailer was over-rated. The beginnings of bad vibrations tingled my spine, and I wondered...
...Editor's Note: Larry L. King, 41, is a Harper's magazine contributing editor, widely published freelance writer, novelist, and grandfather. In 1969-70, Mr. King was one of a group of journalists who did time at Harvard under the auspices of the Nieman Foundation. His 8,000-word account of the year, "Blowing My Mind at Harvard," appears in the current Harper's. For the CRIMSON, Mr. King has added to his memoirs by filling in the details of the visits he arranged here for writers Norman Mailer and William Styron. The following is the concluding part of this...
According to that correspondence which has allegedly been censored out of my account, the DAS left Greece, not for reasons of political idealism, but rather for more hard-headed considerations. From the DAS' letter to the Greek government, dated January 1968, nine months after the takeover...
...Humphrey Doermann '47, Assistant to Dean Dunlop, said, "Our financial problems are similar in kind to other universities' but we have a year or two more of insulation before our problems hit in full force," He said that Arts and Sciences deficits are paid for by a small account kept at $500,000, and a larger account, the Fund for Instruction, which is currently over $8 million. The Fund was built up in the early 1960's when there were budget surpluses...
...swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion, they probe mercilessly for his Swiss bank account number...