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...easy to say it's chaotic and mock the use of the computer, but that's how a committee works. You put it on the screen so everybody can see it." He spoke in the aggrieved tones of a man who has just spent five hours bending over backward and is now being attacked anyway. Hanging in the air was the belief that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women even doubt that a masochistic personality exists. Garfinkel believes there "simply...
Rediscovered, Welch is more likely to be influential than popular. His undeceived tone, coupled with wide-eyed looks backward, gives him the air of a boy in the costume of a judge. That sort of grotesquerie is not to everyone's taste. But there has been no one like that boy before or since, and adults who hope to understand children ought to be on reading terms with their strange, stunted laureate. --By Stefan Kanfer
...It’s a long process. There are steps forward, and sometimes there’s a step or two backward,” Melton said after the stem cell lines were created. “[My children] are pleased that [the research]’s progressing. But it’s not going to change their life...
...have a grudge against Mao? No, I don't feel any need for revenge. We bent over backward to be fair to him. But we could find nothing nice to say. He was completely immoral, and yet also very smart. He could rise from seemingly impossible situations. We were constantly impressed. I wrote a couple of sentences reflecting how appalled I was by him, but we edited them out. We wanted readers to draw their own conclusions...
...Student’s social life this past year, the scene was often mixed. It’s easy to feel that for every big step forward Harvard’s social scene takes, it takes two big steps backward. But for once, we feel the opposite is true. This year, a host of advances in our social lifes—including the creation of Pub Night, a new blocking group arrangement, and the widespread implementation of later party hours—far outpaced the two steps backward of years past...