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...most Harvard sports fans will attest, Lady Luck has always kept better watch over the Crimson baseball team than its colleague, the basketball squad...
...media-swamped culture. I assumed the greatest obstacles confronting the APS would be castrating cuts in federal arts spending, the reluctance of audiences and corporations to take a chance on new and experimental works, and, as anyone who has ever slogged through a heap of unsolicited playscripts can attest, a shortage of talent and inspiration in a country ambivalent at best about the purpose of its theatre. But on the basis of its first program of three short plays--one amusing, mildly potent vaudeville sketch and a couple of icky, sentimental deadbeats--its biggest obstacle is its own bourgeois, Broadway...
...prove a worthy ally in the struggle for better wages and fringe benefits. Either Harvard has been a satisfactory employer or district 65 would not provide substantially stronger advocacy, they conclude. Staunch solidarity among workers can sometimes prove painful, as followers of the recent air traffic controllers' debacle can attest. A union's ability to mobilize support through unity not-withstanding, it may be said that the Med Area's clerical and technical workers fear strikes and the uncertainty they create as much as their present employer does. Or, it may be that they think District 65 is merely seeking...
...schoolteacher in Bedford Stuyvesant, I can fully attest to the many other troubled teen-agers like Baby Love in that area [Oct. 12]. The saddest part is that the kids aren't aware of another way of life. They simply do not have a choice...
...fathers have proved to be on more than speaking terms with the language (a present-day exception: Daniel Patrick Moynihan). The British Parliament, on the other hand, has always been a veritable academy of accomplished scribblers, as the examples of Benjamin Disraeli, A.P. Herbert, Winston Churchill-and now Foot-attest. This may not necessarily make for better politics, but it is surely a comfort to the mother tongue...