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Auchincloss gently mocks such pretensions, but he takes seriously those people who try to live by the rules. Times may change; strictures remain for the fortunate few. No Friend Like a New Friend is set in the early 1960s. Frances Hamill, widow of an eminent lawyer, banker and adviser to...
The earliest faint stirrings of dissent occurred in 1974, when that year's synod departed from the traditional affirmation that apartheid derived directly from Scripture, and said only that apartheid was not in any way contrary to Scripture. That dissent grew stronger in 1980, when eight theologians published a statement...
Last April the government kicked off a campaign to restructure the economy with the release of the Maekawa Report, a project prepared by 17 eminent Japanese. The slender canon warned that Japan must consume more and export less if it hopes to achieve greater "international harmony" with its trading partners...
Another goal of the week, said Angeliki Laiou, history department chairman, "is to bring to Harvard eminent practitioners of women's history to make women's history more widely know at this University."
THIS IS not the first time that such allegations have been made. A few years ago, a French author wrote a book denying the existence of gas chambers in German concentration camps. Never before, however, has an historical revision of the Nazi period involved leading politicians as well as eminent...