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Harvard's reputation for being rough on junior faculty is well-known, and before Harper came to Cambridge many people he talked to said they couldn't believe he was considering the move. But the university is not the only thing that makes him slightly uneasy...
Harvard's reputation for being rough on junior faculty is well-known, and before Harper came to Cambridge many people he talked to said they couldn't believe he was considering the move. But the University is not the only thing that makes him slightly uneasy...
...Hall may be the only person who is sanguine about Marxism's future. But that's no mystery to anyone who knows the jovial, square-jawed Minnesotan, whose deliberate step and stolid bearing (6 ft., 210 lbs.) evoke his earlier days as a lumberjack and steelworker. He's a rough-hewn American version of the Soviet bear, who would look equally at home in overcoat and shapka on the Kremlin reviewing stand with Brezhnev (his favorite Soviet) or in a gimmie-cap at a Fourth of July picnic in Des Moines. He mixes an earthy Midwest charm with a trace...
...working-class alienation -- an inarticulate promise of danger, sex and social abrasion. Which is why, as TIME film critic Richard Schickel tells us in BRANDO: A LIFE IN OUR TIMES (Atheneum; $21.95), he was a mythic presence for all the young urban professionals of the '50s. Rude but sensitive, rough but anguished, Brando was their version of pastoral -- a noble-savage counterpoint to the corporate rat race. The myth got lost in the series of unsuccessful movies he made after his greatest, On the Waterfront. Schickel concentrates on how and why this happened to the celluloid Brando, leaving the real...
...most powerful government bond dealer on Wall Street, Salomon Brothers has long been known for its swagger and for a rough-and-tumble culture that reveled in practical jokes. But the scandal that stunned the giant firm last week was no laughing matter. With the company's stock collapsing in the wake of disclosures that Salomon had repeatedly tried to corner the market for Treasury securities, chairman John Gutfreund and president Thomas Strauss said they would offer their resignations at an emergency board meeting on Sunday. The firm said directors would also consider the fate of vice chairman John Meriwether...