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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about $18) is a thermal -meaning it traps the air-underwear with an inner lining of moisture-absorbent cotton topped with wool, cotton and nylon. On top the urban survivor wears a flannel shirt, a cashmere sweater or a goose-down vest, a tweed jacket, a muffler, mittens (which allow fingers to warm each other) and a heavy overcoat. On the assumption that the 8:30 a.m. train to town will be a late, late show, the well-booted suburbanite may be wise to invest in the commuter's equivalent of a mink coat: Eddie Bauer's Eskimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Warm and Chic | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

...considering the vast weight of evidence that backs it up, does not seem particularly far-fetched, nor does it seem in any degree racist. However, if Professor Wilson's views are indeed as absurd as Ms. Rosenthal seems to think, it would be more prudent on her part to allow his hypotheses to fall victim to the truly scientific method of test by experiment, rather than the politically-motivated haranguing of a nutritionist whose command of the topic is perhaps open to some doubt. Stephen Schumacher '80 James Armstrong...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Unjustified Attack | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

University and union negotiators sat down at the bargaining table yesterday after a three-week hiatus that a federal mediator recommended to allow Harvard to re-evaluate its police administration procedures...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: Policing An Efficient Police Chief | 2/12/1977 | See Source »

...first Dudevant attempted to compromise, trying to read the books she offered him, but he invariably fell asleep. They experimented with a modified open marriage. She wouldn't complain about his whores if he would allow her intellectual, though not initially sexual, freedom. In this way, Barry suggests, she tried to make her marriage, which she was not yet willing to abandon, more fulfilling...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: The Feminist Troubadour | 2/11/1977 | See Source »

...modern, and modern choreographers themselves were divided; dances were ideological statements. Today Lubovitch takes for granted the freedom to work in any style; his dancers are able to attack any movement with the lightness of ballet or the strength of Graham or the breathiness of Humphrey. Lubovitch can allow each dance to create its own technique and aesthetic...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Lubovitch at the Loeb, Soll, and New England Dinosaur | 2/10/1977 | See Source »

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