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Richard Schickel's review of Sylvester Stallone's "F.I.S.T." needed a qualifying phrase, or else it was an unnecessary slap at American labor. Schickel said the film did not offer a "historical insight into how the American labor movement so quickly deteriorated into self-serving materialism...
...Thucydides, if not a Gibbon to describe them. British Historian Horne, whose previous books include three studies of Franco-German conflicts, may not be in that league, but it is difficult to imagine the story much better told. His lucid, compelling narrative is studded with snapshots of insight; Algiers without the boisterous pieds noirs, he reports, is today a surly, unsmiling city, "with the architecture of Cannes, but the atmosphere of Aberdeen." Horne's judgments are generous and fair, to winners and losers alike. Of the latter, undoubtedly the most pathetic were the thousands of harkis, Muslim soldiers...
Because if anything else, Savit was refreshing. In the fairly predictable world of Harvard sports it was safe to assume that a Savit account, a Savit insight, a Savit impression would always range far from predictability. Off-base sometimes, but ultimately he would always seem to put college athletics in the right perspective for his readers...
...nature of any "presidency" allows the occupant of the office to speak with courage and plan with vision and insight. As Andrew Jackson said of his job: "One man with courage makes a majority." Clearly, President Bok is not such a man. He has spoken with style but without substance; hence, his plan is one of stunning gutlessness. Clearly, students should not expect anything more from President Bok than competent administration in carrying out his more routine duties--he has abdicated any leadership role he could hope to have played on any issue of student concern. Students can only take...
...England). British Biographer George Painter attempts to resurrect the legend by resuscitating the man. Author of a highly acclaimed and exhaustively researched biography of Proust, Painter has produced the first part of a projected three-volume study. Like its predecessor, it promises to be a model of organization and insight...