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Wherever the "Queen Mum" went during the monthlong birthday jubilee, which had its finale last week, crowds gathered to cheer her. Regent Street shops were awash in commemorative wares. Gifts-ranging from fishing tackle to a chiffon hat-poured into her residence, Clarence House...
That was the way an envious competitor described Harper's at the start of the Civil War. Since then, however, it has rarely been popular or profitable. Founded by four brothers in New York City, Harper's has spent most of its 130 years awash in red ink, losing $1.3 million annually since 1977. Last week America's oldest monthly received its long-feared death notice. Said Otto Silha, chairman of the parent Minneapolis Star and Tribune Co.: "It was no longer desirable for the company to support its operation in the light of increased costs...
STAGING THIS hyper-intellectual verse play is a risky venture as best in these postlapsarian times. Awash in his hard-won Catholic faith, T.S. Eliot spun Murder in the Cathedral in 1935 out of the stuff of the ritual he was preoccupied with and the metaphysical poetry he esteemed. Since then, its readers have appreciated its poetic merit, but its audiences have sat uncomfortably as paradox and conceit flew by, just out of their grasp...
Voters were also turned off by Clark's uncertain leadership and his image as a malaprop-spouting bumbler. "The media have done a number on me," complained Clark. "I frankly wasn't paying too much attention to it." By the time the campaign began, the country was awash with Joe Clark jokes, many of them crude and unfair. (Which of those two fellows in Santa Claus suits is Joe Clark? Answer: The one handing out Easter eggs.) The jokes were only part of the problem. Far more serious were Clark's inexperience in economics and foreign policy...
...school buildings are virtually identical: breezy, modern four-story structures, awash with portraits of Marx and Lenin. Classrooms are brightly colored, equipped with the latest audiovisual aids, and neatly arranged with rows of sleek, polished-wood tables. Each nationality represented on the island has its own school. The curriculums vary somewhat. Students from Namibia (Southwest Africa), for example, are taught English grammar, while those from Angola and Mozambique learn Portuguese. Cuban instructors normally teach academic subjects like math or biology, but the teaching of social sciences and ideology is reserved for men and women teachers imported from the students...