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...recent events have made painfully clear, the cheery exterior the president witnessed at the autumn gala belied a deeply ingrained, troubling problem, one that is wrapped up in a community of difference: Racial tensions continue to rip the University fabric, as students, faculty and administrators draw seemingly uncrossable lines on issues of diversity and insensitivity...
...Momma, the embittered matriarch of the Irish-American Towne clan, permits herself a few sentimental tears. But when the party ends, Momma reminds the Roman Catholic celebrators that they have been "dancing on graves." Four days later, there will be a fresh grave to dig -- that of May, the autumn bride -- and the family will sink back into the regret and loss that threaten to smother three generations of Townes...
According to one line of speculation, the timing of the Nicholas ouster was dictated by Ross's health; he has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for prostate cancer since last autumn. Directors and company officers who opposed Nicholas felt that they needed to ensure that if Ross died, Nicholas would not succeed him. But a number of other insiders say the move would have been made months earlier had it not been for Ross's illness. One crystallizing factor, apparently, was the death of Borg-Warner chairman James F. Bere, a longtime member of the Time Inc. board who remained...
...provincialism in time to be able to goad ourselves into the excitement with which Mantegna and other Italian artists, architects and writers of the 15th century confronted the Antique: a buried civilization, an Atlantis below the hills and vineyards. What did it mean when Mantegna, in the early autumn of 1464, took off with two friends on a boat decked with carpets and laurel branches, punting around Lake Garda, twangling on the lute and looking for Roman ruins? This search for "such delightful places and such venerable ancient monuments," as one of them later wrote, was a serious idyll...
Thursday, Feb. 20: The Magic Flute at3:15 and 7:35 p.m. Autumn Sonata at 5:45 and 10p.m...