Word: subject
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United States Government stationery? Hyland reports that Kissinger contends the FBI would never release such a memo about him to anyone else because the Freedom of Information Act only permits the release of records on a specific person to that individual alone. Diamond says he filed under a subject--Harvard University-- rather than a name, and so had every right to read the documents...
There is one strain in Kissinger's writing that appears again and again, no matter what the subject under discussion. It is a gruesome, intractable fear of revolution, a deep horror of internal upheavals which cause social order and international stability to collapse around them...
...people at Harvard who really cared about art, who sought it out as a first-hand experience rather than accepting passively what was flashed up on the projector or dished out in the anthologies. The guardians of the humanities do little to convince undergraduates of the importance of their subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures at the Science Center on constipation in worms or some such subject a vast lecture hall is packed, but when a visiting scholar lectures on some aspect of the humanities there are almost never...
...society's mighty engines of banality can reduce anything to a bore, and death, the fad that replaced tennis, has lately been talked to death. A viewer may approach Promises in the Dark with some wariness, therefore, because the subject of the film is a 17-year-old girl's death after a long battle with cancer. But Promises is clear, direct and honest, and free of both cant and sentimentality. It is also lively, in the exact sense of the word; the flow of intelligence and feeling between Buffy, the sick girl, and her family and friends...
Most of his time was spent with painters, trying to transliterate the impact of postimpressionism into his fledgling prose. It worked well enough that the Christian Science Monitor asked him to write an occasional mood piece about Paris. This led to assignments in Ireland and Spain, the subject of his first book, Marching Spain...