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...sound ground but playing an awkward role was Kenneth Rendell, a Newton, Mass., autograph analyst who was paid $8,000 by Newsweek magazine. Also separately advising Stern, he put the two volumes brought to New York by Koch under his microscope, photocopied and enlarged the words, and concluded that the books were forgeries. When he told this to Koch, Rendell says, "he was absolutely devastated." At week's end Rendell said that his sole interest was to pursue his theories about how "this mess," as he called it, had been created. He predicted teasingly and without explanation: "There is potentially...
...welcome fact the letter makes clear is that the Faculty Council agrees that harassment is enough of a problem to require a unified policy. It settles that in the awkward power relationship between student and teacher, the University must step to protect the victim, and that there is need to publicize the problem so that women will know where to turn for the support they so badly need. What the letter hints at but does not quite address--as the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) has complained--is the extent to which the problem goes beyond rules and regulations, remaining...
...will protest ardently the decision that was eventually made. But the matter illustrates Princeton's awkward handling of what never should have become a "matter" at all. Earlier rumors had emanated from New Jersey that Princeton was "tactfully" discouraging Shields from completing the application process; low-level noise that, even unsubstantiated, reflected more poorly on Princeton than on Shields. And when anticipation on campus spilled over into sexist crudity in the Princeton humor magazine Tiger--which featured a list of "Ways to Pick Up Brooke Shields If and When She Arrives on Campus"--Princeton fired the editor in charge...
...sisters made a living by selling such things in a boutique. What with his metal ornaments and their laces and embroideries, the González clan in Paris was closer to the fashion industry than to the centers of the art world. González painted, mostly awkward imitations of Puvis de Chavannes. He drew, with ability. He turned his metalworker's hand to making hammered copper masks. This went on through the teens and '20s. In short, González took longer to peck his way out of the egg than any modern artist of comparable stature...
...face the adjustment to a country where women spend their lives covered from head to toe in several layers of black fabric. They were still getting their bearings when a prince, a special friend of the king's needed treatment for an ulcer. His high status and the awkward timing made the doctor's visit a test case for the entire hospital. Dr. Hugh Compton, the hospital's director of medical affairs, told...