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...veterans-Film Critic Stanley Kauffmann, White House Reporter John Osborne and the salty TRB Contributor Richard Strout of the Christian Science Monitor-help sustain the magazine's flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
...Cambridge School Department launched its bilingual English-Portuguese program, progress in education for Portuguese children hinged solely on a knowledge of English. Often their education was arrested completely until they learned English. Consequently, frustration became a built-in component of American education for the Portuguese. It was a significant contributor to the high drop out rate among Portuguese at the high school level...
Peretz is now on the editorial board of Dissent magazine and is a part owner of Washington Monthly. He is also former contributor to Ramparts magazine...
...donations to the University of $100 or more would be a matter of public record, encouraging The Crimson to write snide stories whenever a large contributor were appointed to a visiting committee or given an honorary degree...
...among others, Viet Nam Doves Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff. Among the "American Professors for Peace in the Middle East" who signed an ad in the New York Times advocating support of Israel was Martin Peretz, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard and a major contributor to George McGovern's campaign...