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...These critics point out that Harvard has a policy of insuring that all students talented enough to enter will be admitted regardless of need and offered a package of grants, loans, and self-help sufficient to permit then...to complete their studies. Thus, they argue that Harvard should not abandon this policy and allow students to lose their normal scholarships and subsidized loans simply because they have failed to comply with some unrelated federal law Unless Harvard makes up for the loss of these funds. It will allow the federal government to dictate its financial and policy. The University...
TIME underestimates the power of John Travolta's erotic intensity and charisma in his latest film, Staying Alive [July 18]. His performance made me, a conservative housewife, mother and C.P.A. from Ohio, want to abandon all for the frenetic and aphrodisian life of a dancer...
Once the young people enter the business world, explains Fujii, many of them abandon classical music for enka, which combines both Western and traditional music elements in a kind of Japanese equivalent of American country and western. Traditional Japanese music, marked by delicate use of microtones, refined textures and free rhythm, was downgraded during the drive toward Westernization. But it remains popular, especially with older people and in the provinces, and is preserved in the Noh, Bunraku and Kabuki theaters. "We never had a national traditional music," says Toyama. "It was strictly apportioned by classes: the courts, the samurai...
...year ago between U.S. Arms Negotiator Paul Nitze and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli Kvitsinsky. That formula, worked out by the two negotiators at Geneva during their famous "walk in the woods," was subsequently disavowed by the Kremlin and the White House. The proposal called for the U.S. to abandon the planned deployment of 108 Pershing II missiles in West Germany in exchange for a ceiling on Soviet warheads. Whether Akhromeyev meant to send a new signal was unclear. Other Congressmen insisted that the marshal's remarks were merely routine responses to the group's questions and clearly...
...moving, shifting, murmuring, squishing, sighing, and smacking its lips . . . In the thick night, a crowd of barefoot beggars stood huddled together . . . I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration. In the meticulous absorption of this eating there was an almost violent biological abandon-the satisfaction of hunger in anxiety and ecstasy...