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This true story starts in 1927 when Harry Frommermann, an out of work actor, gets the idea to form a multi-part harmony group, and places an ad in the paper. After a few initial flops, the six-man Comedian Harmonists update their repertoire, adding jazzy syncopation and some naughty lyrics. Their innovations are hilariously documented in one great scene, where they do an improv imitation of a purely instrumental jazz band. They are soon discovered, and become, in effect, The Beatles of Berlin...
...implementation of a living wage (by Sept. 1, 1999), that meeting finally took place two weeks ago. Rudenstine did not attend. In the cordial and candid meeting, Fineberg announced that he and the president are delegating the issue to a faculty/administration task force--an Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies selected by the president that has no timeline, excludes students and workers, does not reflect the diversity of the service worker staff at Harvard and has only the power to make recommendations...
...implementation of a living wage (by Sept. 1, 1999), that meeting finally took place two weeks ago. Rudenstine did not attend. In the cordial and candid meeting, Fineberg announced that he and the president are delegating the issue to a faculty/administration task force--an Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies selected by the president that has no timeline, excludes students and workers, does not reflect the diversity of the service worker staff at Harvard and has only the power to make recommendations...
True feminist points, though, might go to Otherwise Engaged, which, while no paragon of craftsmanship, takes on the subject of female commitment fear, not a topic feverishly discussed in McCall's. The novel deconstructs a year in the life of Eve, a successful ad executive, as she prepares to marry at 36. She has dated her beau for four years. All along she has thought happiness would come in a ring box, but once Eve gets her gem, all she can do is panic over the foreverness of it all--aren't all married people miserable? It is comforting...
...gives you the time, weather and choice of greeting. For custom messages, just type in a brief sentence to be read aloud in a synthesized voice. Then select the time and date, enter your phone number and wait for the call. The catch? You have to listen to an ad first thing in the morning...