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Beyond this, I would suggest that the instances in the history of human thought where personal moral integrity bears a causal relationship to the discovery of important truth are legion. The same is true in "belles letters" and perhaps also in visual arts. The problem is not merely to find "excellence," as John Silber puts it, but to define what "excellence" is. Humanity is general seems to think that excellent scholarship has something to do with meeting the needs of the world's unfortunate and underprivileged people. Academic administrators in the Boston area increasingly seem to feel instead that...
Infiltration? A possibility. The problem was locating a female among FBI ranks who would be willing to frizz her hair and wear jeans (for the good of the country). Rumor has it that they finally located one for the job, but unfortunately she came back from her first NOW meeting demanding equal pay. So, recognizing the instability inherent in all females, even their own recruits, and unable to find any male agent willing to go in drag, the FBI abandoned the infiltration ploy...
Presumably not to be thwarted, the FBI put their best minds to work on the problem. The best minds came up with some heartening facts. First, they recognized that the feminist movement had many powerful enemies. Government, business and the media were controlled by men, all of whom were dedicated to maintaining their own power. The government thus could be counted on to keep women out of key positions, and business, always knowing a good thing when they had it, would fight to the death to keep women out of the executive washroom and behind the steno notebooks...
Among the crowd of voluble candidates in both parties, few have forthrightly announced their plans to solve the greatest problem facing the country--how to cut oil imports. One way or another, the Cold War marches must be reorchestrated to channel American emotions toward conservation. Reduced dependence on foreign oil could become the centerpiece of an anti-inflation policy more humane and effective than the Federal Reserve's current shock tactics...
FIZDALE: We practically wrote a book on Mallarmé! It's in the drawer. GOLD: We wrote 50 pages on Revue Blanche before we realized that it wasn't our subject. The problem was to marry cultural history and biography. It is difficult to steer a clear course between interpretation and fact. And it should not be 900 pages long...