Tidbits and Outrages
Tidbits and Outrages Q.E.D. We have in the past complained that too many of our best and brightest are becoming lawyers. “Anthropologists of the next century,” we pre. dicted, “will look...
...We have previously reported Mary McCarthy’s revelation that Hannah Arendt had never had a corn...
...David W. Ehrenfeld of Rutgers recently wrote about these administrators in me New York Times: “. . . I have watched the chairman of one of our departments smuggle his state vehicles out to a local gas station to be winterized, because our university maintenance division, up to its neck in administrative red tape, charged his account a $15 ‘labor’ fee to install a quart of antifreeze...
...Mr...
...Thomas became a board member, he saw some things that bothered him...
...Shortly after Mr...
...257 went to law school, more than did anything else...
...Now comes the proof in “ One Thousand Men of Harvard: I’he Harvard College Class Df 1971 Five Years Later...
...Railway Association board of directors...
...In Washington this attitude is particularly strong, as can be seen in this article by Mike Causey in 7’he Washington Post: “He may be a nuclear scientist, super successful businessman and master politician...
...Checking Up on CREEP Nixon’s Committee to Reelect the President lives on today, as the 1972 Campaign Liquidation Trust...
...Its single largest expense since 1972 has been $471,390 for the defense of Maurice Stans and John Mitchell in their New York perjury trial...
...And the audit disclosed also that the association had given lucrative consulting contracts to USRA officers after they left the corporation...
...Thomas as a member of the board of the U.S...
...Now comes John Hersey in The New Republic to tell us that Lillian Hellman “has not vomited since May 23, 1952...
...The Business of Education A few months ago we commented, in an article called “The Firemen First Principle,” on the tendency of administrators, faced with a budget cut, to fire the people who actually do the work, the firemen or the teachers, instead of reducing the number of administrators...
...The job is a temporary one, paying from $3 to $6.75 per hour, depending upon the qualifications and experience of the person selected...
...Yet it died because neither house bothered to accept the other’s version...
...Here is an example of that attitude in an article by Philip Terzian in the September 18 New Republic: “The pursuit of power is fundamentally a philistine occupation, and it is not likely that a genuine intellectual, mindful of history and human nature, would find the transient glory of public affairs worth the trouble...
...In addition to that, Stans has asked the Trust for another $157,697 in fees, including $18,600 for his own time (at $30 an hour) preparing evidence for the trial...
...At the first board meeting after the audit, Mr...
...dicted, “will look back in amazement at an arrangement whereby the most ambitious and brightest members of each generation were siphoned off the productive work force, trained to think like a lawyer, and put to work chasing one another around in circles...
...But Jimmy Carter wouldn’t get to first base if he was after a certain $3-an-hour job at the Library of Congress, instead of a better paying post at the White House...
...An amendment was inserted in a railroad financial aid bill...
...The rules are the lobbyists’ best friend in avoiding legislation they don’t want while letting legislators get on record voting the right wav...
...Every legislative body has rules that excuse inaction on the basis of controlling leg...
...One qualification in particular has intrigued some library staffers...
...I have found out that there is another set of administrators part of whose remarkable job it seems to be to guess (for Federal administrators) the race and color of each job applicant to the university, on the basis of such revealing information as their names...
...he had an auditing team from Treasury come in and look around...
...Not at all good company on a tax-financed board of directors...
...Railway Association...
...The Trust started this year with $1.6 million in the bank...
...We’re All Choked Up Writers seem to become unstrung when they are writing about other writers, at least when they are striving for the telling detail...
...Courting Disaster Do you sometimes wonder why every few years there is some terrible tragedy in a coal mine...
...A funny thing happened after all this...
...And there is always that wonderful administrator, a vice president I believe, who sends to every person who has had an accident in a university car a pamphlet explaining how not to have any more accidents...
...Grubby Democrats In “A Kind Word for the Spoils System” in our September issue, we discussed the unfortunate fact that American intellectuals tend to feel “above” politics...
...Record-keeping was so sloppy that the auditors couldn’t tell on whom some $35,000 in entertainment expenses had been spent during the first nine months of this year...
...Thomas’s fellow directors voted to censure him and, as well, refused to adopt his proposals for association documentation of who spent what on whom...
...The amendment would disqualify Mr...
...Down Home at the Library Elsewhere in this issue we comment on the unfortunate tendency on the part of people who have moved to the Northeast to look on the rest of the country as a hopelessly dull cultural wilderness...
...It says that the man or woman who gets the job must possess ‘nonaccented or nonregionalization speech.’ ” The Case for Government Meddling Another case of virtue rewarded was reported recently by The Washington Star: “. . .Jerry Thomas, an undersecretary of the Treasury, wears a second hat, as a member of the U.S...
...Thomas’s initiative did not draw rave reviews...
...Since last April he has represented Treasury Secretary Simon on the board of the government-financed corporation, formed to restructure and to help rehabilitate the bankrupt Northeastern railroads...
...Well, clearly, an obstreperous fellow, this Thomas...
...The newspapers reported this was because of “the parliamentary situation...
...One explanation came to light recently when a UMW survey revealed that only 13.7 per cent of newly-hired miners are given training in mine safety by their companies...
...Most of its spending has gone to the legal fees of CREEP’S former employees...
...Lobbied The toughest lobby disclosure bill in years was passed last spring by the Senate, 82 to 9, and in September by the House, 307 to 34, in only a slightly different form...
...The audit showed the association had used tax money to finance memberships for its top executives at lunching and country clubs, including a $5,000 initiation fee for USRA chairman Arthur D. Lewis at Burning Tree Country Club...
...islative traffic during the final hours...
...The library, which does all sorts of interesting things besides fiiing books, has been looking for a narrator in the reader services section, which provides audio material for the blind...
Vol. 8 • November 1976 • No. 9
