Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...publishing a list of courses related to international affairs, maintaining a computerized list of students interested in the field, and distributing a bi-monthly newsletter--are "extremely useful to many students and should definitely be continued," George C. Homans '32, associate dean of the Faculty for Undergraduate Education and author of the report, said yesterday...
McGinnis is not the writer McPhee is. Going to Extremes is little more than hastily scrawled notes on paper wrinkled from being stashed in the author's backpack during a year's travel. It's all grubby and tough, rambling along with McGinnis as he trudges and airlifts back and forth across Alaska. The style is rough, unfluent, and unpolished, with sentence fragments and single words often strung together or chopped up in an outdoorsy gruffness that is quite suitable for the ramshackle and breathtaking world McGinnis explores, though too often it sounds like plain old bad writing. But throughout...
...telling snapshots. Though he doesn't travel with any particular theme in mind, the pictures in his montage, realized in great, often tragic detail, are shrewdly observed. There is the casually inhuman toughness of the last frontier, where, when a drunk, drooling Indian lurches and almost collapses on the author's table in a diner his companion barely looks up as he says "Fuck off, partner." There is the disturbing impact of the short-sighted greed of the oil industry...
...ordinary newspaper, you must understand," the author, a former writer for The Crimson and The New York Times, writes, and he wasn't referring to The Crimson. White, who worked at The Times from 1974 to 1978, has written a novel highly critical of the "Gray Lady," transparently disguised here as the New York "Globe," (Just in case readers don't get the message, they are quickly told three times in the novel's first three pages of the Globe's "stately," "black" and "great" Corinthian masthead.) True Bearing is a novel about The Times; about journalism and reporting; about...
Fortunately, there is one author in a position to do something about this situation. Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding) plans to introduce special legislation that would exempt publishers from the Thor ruling. The bill would join one sponsored by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who favors a moratorium on implementing Thor. In the meantime, publishers searching for loopholes might consider the tax credits available for energy conservation. Books stacked against the walls of warehouses might be considered insulation. For the more literary, who prefer a Swiftian modest proposal, there is always the book-burning stove...