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...Bradlee: "Journalists are in the business of describing what happens and we don't lie, which is more than a lot of politicians can say. The fearful possibility is that they're going after newsmagazines because they did a good job this week." As Columnist William Buckley saw it, "The purpose of the editors was neither prurient nor inflammatory in the cover treatment. The function of newsmagazines is to vitiate ignorance. In that respect, both TIME and Newsweek passed the test...
...that are less desirable than corresponding students would have ended up with in Sputnik times." And although statistics compiled by Donna G. Martyn, director of placement for the GSAS, indicate that as of November 1974 over a quarter of the previous year's English Ph.D.'s remained unemployed, Jerome Buckley, professor of English and director of placement for the department, maintains, "Most people in English who've actually completed their theses do have jobs, though sometimes not always the jobs they wanted...
Admittedly, Harvard cuts in enrollment are hardly likely to affect the overall job picture, especially as long as other colleges maintain large graduate programs. Buckley, who says Harvard has trimmed its first-year class in English from 100 to 17 in the past ten years, tells a story about a conversation he had recently with a certain state college official. This particular college, it seems, had just cut enrollment in its enormously bloated English Ph.D. program to 300 students. "That's really downright immoral," Buckley told the official. "What, cutting back?" the official asked. "No," said Buckley, "admitting one-tenth...
...funny kind of fear. It isn't just a shouting-fire-in-a crowded-theater kind of panic. It's more than beaches closing down, and lots of sweaty swimmers staying on grilled sands to the dismay of resort owners and confirmed bathers like William E. Buckley whose wife won't even go into the goddam swimming pool any more...
...Freedom, in which he called for rapprochement between the Communist and capitalist systems. The physicist writes that he decided to undertake the new project largely as a result of a discussion about détente in his Moscow apartment last November with New York's Conservative Senator James Buckley ("the first U.S. Government figure who considered it possible to meet with me"). In sending the typescript of the essay to the West, Sakharov asked that excerpts be published before the opening of the European Security Conference in Helsinki this week...