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That is the way he wants it. Despite worldwide fame (his books have been translated into nearly 60 languages), Singer remains a uniquely accessible celebrity. The phone rings constantly. Friends, fans and total strangers turn up at the roomy West Side Manhattan apartment that he shares with Alma, his wife for 38 years. They find a slightly stooped, nearly bald host with fine, parchment-like skin and strikingly pale blue eyes. He looks frail until he talks or moves, scuttling be tween sofa, telephone and front door with the vitality of a chipmunk...
Last week the President did so. Addressing a graduation class at his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Carter talked straight to Moscow in some of the harshest words used by a U.S. President since John Kennedy in 1961 charged the Soviet character with being "stamped for all time on the bloody streets of Budapest." At the same time, he offered the Russians an olive branch of potential good will from the U.S. side, if only they would make the right decision. "The Soviet Union can choose either confrontation or cooperation," said Carter at the climax...
Nevertheless, James Carroll - an ex-priest but still a committed Catholic - is not simply lashing out at his alma mater...
...Harvard Class of '53 began drifting into the old alma mater yesterday morning looking for familiar faces and mulling over forgotten names. The classmates and their wives, $325 poorer, arrived to register at the Freshman Union where children were bundled off into age groups--the blue, orange, red or green divisions, which program special children's activities...
...last spring followed more than five years of uncertainty about Radcliffe, which has been committed since 1971 to providing its students with a coeducational and co-residential college experience, and which seemed to be moving toward complete absorption by Harvard. Knowing that alumnae would not stand to see their alma mater swallowed up, and proclaiming that the Radcliffe tradition must live on, Horner last spring agreed to turn over the day-to-day management of the affairs of women undergraduates to Harvard, while Radcliffe would focus primarily on graduate and research programs...