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...York in the early '30s was as wide a world as an adolescent could handle. Avant-garde art, radical politics and a blend of bourgeois habits and bohemian attitudes encouraged theatrical poses. Simon's favorite getup is a long gray raincoat, a gold borsalino hat and black stockings. At 15 she is a live-in helper for a Greenwich Village dermatologist and his family. The Bergsons appreciate culture with a capital K, and the baby-sitter, already an amateur anthropologist, enjoys watching their games. Available evidence suggests that the doctor was a pretentious cad and an ideal target for Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl in the Gold Borsalino a Wider World: Portraits in an | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...total, the cagers have had five half-shooting performances in the 20s, 10 in the 30s, 18 in the 40s, six in the 50s, and one in the 70s (against Brandeis in an 81-58 rout). Harvard is shooting 42 percent from the field this year, well below the 52.3 percent last year's Crimson averaged...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Curse of the Big Green First Halves | 2/12/1986 | See Source »

...said premarital sex was immoral. In late 1985 polls put the figure between 60% and 65%. To no one's surprise, sexual repression is less popular among the young than the old. In a fall 1985 survey of married people in the Peking area, only half of the under-30s, in contrast to three-quarters of the over- 50s, said they opposed sex before marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Some Stirrings on the Mainland | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...major difference in the groups is the type of the type of music they sing. While the Pitchesand Kroks tend to do swing, blues, '20s, '30s, and'50s, according to members, Johnson said theOpportunes do "Motown, jazzy, upbeat music...

Author: By Laura S. Kohl, | Title: Trying to Make it Into a Harvard A Capella Group | 2/8/1986 | See Source »

Attended by about 50 people, the dance at the Sheraton Commander Hotel attracted high school students and grandparents alike. Working with a collection of 6000 records including music from the '30s to the '80s, a disc-jockey played requests all night...

Author: By Mei LIN Kwan-gett, | Title: Hundreds Flock to Square For Winterfest Carnival | 2/4/1986 | See Source »

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