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...since then I don’t know. I don’t know why the subject has proved so daunting. He was definitely what we would call a control freak in every aspect of his life. There is so much about this man—love affairs, politics??, [and] you have his willingness to work with Lenin, Mussolini, Petain, de Gaulle, Nehru, and the American government in the 1930s. There are so many facets to Le Corbusier and at the same time a private life that is very hard for people to understand. I just think biographers didn?...
While the purpose of Achebe’s visit was to celebrate his literary career, he also touched on what he termed “the ugliness of politics?? in Nigeria...
...Among the holy trinity of political groups on campus—the Harvard College Democrats, Harvard Republican Club, and the Institute of Politics??the irony is particularly profound, of course. For Harvard’s future politicos, November 5th marked the beginning of the preseason. And only a week later, the rumors are already beginning to swirl...
...swing votes, and as a constituent of a larger one that obsesses over the machinations of its governing body for one month of the year and nearly ignores it for the other eleven. I’m speaking, of course, about the Undergraduate Council, whose internal politics??insofar as it prevents things from getting done—concerns...
...only is concerned with this world, which is always passing away. But to American youth, immersed in a self-consciously and radically secular culture, especially at a place like Harvard, the precepts and promises of religion have diminished appeal. Limiting their perspectives to this world, youth understandably can see politics??once shorn of the ostensible cynicism of the older generations—as the catholicon of their...