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...Harvard is still one of the very straight roads to the levers of power in America, there isn't any reason why minorities shouldn't think they're here to get hold of those levers--to be Very Important People not only on their own turf but also in the society at large, to struggle with the rulers to rule. With this time-honored American political tradition, incidentally, I have no special quarrel; I merely object to the prosecution of this struggle in symbolic terms which get the civil liberties we should all cherish stepped on. Showing political muscle...
That ingredient can be found throughout Hermit of Peking, a model of historical detective work. The unfailingly literate sleuth is Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and The Rise of Christian Europe, who has ventured far from his customary turf. In 1973, Trevor-Roper came upon two volumes of unpublished memoirs by Sir Edmund. The work appeared so outrageous, so incongruent with the accepted character of the author-it chronicled, in obscene detail, his amours with Chinese eunuchs and such European celebrities as Poet Paul Verlaine -that Trevor-Roper felt compelled to investigate the Backhouse background...
...Africa, Lake Victoria, by itself almost as big as Scotland. He talked to us about his plans to develop old colonial buildings there. Then he drove us over the golf course, right across the seventh green. It was not just the President's car crossing the sacrosanct turf but Mr. Bob's as well, in close attendance behind. Plainly the President is not a golfer. But he pointed out to us the spot where he often plays basketball with his team. From there we went to Lake Victoria, where he made his point with the Coders and America...
...international oil trade in the 1920s, Blair discovered a pattern of price fixing and cozy marketing arrangements by which the big companies divided up the world for their own gain and tried to ruin any small independent firm that sought to cut prices or intrude on their turf. No other industry, Blair implied, so depended on bribes and payoffs...
...campaign was one of the most vituperative ever seen in a union election, and it continued that way to the end. On the weekend before the polling, retiring President I.W. Abel, who had hand-picked McBride as his heir, flew to Chicago to attack Sadlowski on his home turf. "I've known Ed Sadlowski for twelve years," sneered the white-haired Abel, "and I know his lack of ability, his lack of dedication." McBride repeated his charge that "outsiders and limousine liberals" were his opponent's main backers. Sadlowski, for his part, called Abel, McBride and Meany "well...