Word: authored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial entitled "Stand Back, Harvard" (April 12) addressed the current drive to unionize Harvard clerical and technical employees. The author of that editorial stated the opinion that it was "immoral" for the Harvard [administration] to "interfere" with the union drive, and that it was time for the administration to "restrain itself until the May 17 election, and let the workers decide...
...author of that editorial seems to feel that the Harvard administration is some great industrial revolution-type machine, and an effort to present its side of the issue is a cruel manipulation of the oppressed "workers." May I suggest to that author that we Harvard employees are not helpless, downtrodden, or in need of a champion, and we demand the right to make, and the resources for making, an informed decision as to whether to vote to unionize our workplace...
...well-heeled gathering of party activists that the "most serious threat to our national security is not the Sandinistas, but the avalanche of drugs flowing into this country." The line echoes one of Jackson's; when Dukakis used it at a debate, it provoked a wry smile from the author. The normally reserved Dukakis also seeks to personalize his interest in the drug issue, mentioning his wife's 26-year addiction to amphetamines...
...personal literary testament by Author Alan Paton, who died last week, lovingly recalls the words he and others wrote...
Besides, in the 20 years between the World Wars, decadence had become something of a tradition in these parts, as James Fox made clear in the soberly investigative 1983 book from which this deliriously erotic movie has been adapted. The author set out to investigate the murder, never officially solved, of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll, Kenya's most notorious womanizer (played in the film by a subtly predatory Charles Dance). Fox concluded that the murderer was Sir John Henry ("Jock") Delves Broughton (Joss Ackland), a man phlegmatically devoted to squandering a fortune. Broughton's motive was jealousy...