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...Administration is most worried about Senator Scoop Jackson. The Washington Democrat was the bane of Henry Kissinger's existence during earlier SALT debates, and now, in a truly bipartisan spirit, he is marshaling his formidable technical expertise and political power to give Secretary of State Cyrus Vance as much trouble, if not more. As chairman of the Senate's arms-control subcommittee, Jackson has heard testimony on SALT II from a parade of high-level witnesses, and he has not liked what he has heard. In one subcommittee session, Jackson treated Vance in a way that one shaken...
Revisionist drama has become the bane of the theater. It is merciful that Shakespeare, Chekhov and Aeschylus are not alive to view the bizarre "improvements" inflicted upon their classic works by the whims of directors like Peter Brook and Andrei Serban...
...until the late 1960s, Young recalls, parietals ruled the Yard. Of course, parietals were supposed to be the bane of the existence of sexually permissive students. But someday a revisionist Harvard historian will no doubt put together a different story about parietals, one which would lead you to believe that parietals worked in favor of just what they were supposed to be discouraging. Young says, under the rules, women were allowed in the mens' rooms from four until seven p.m. on the weeknights and four until eight p.m. on the weekends. "If a guy and a girl were studying past...
...Ignatius hates more than an Ivy League professor it is a Jesuit professor. Jesuits--an order of priests that spends much of its time being intellectual and professorial, or sometimes political, like Fathers Berrigan and Drinan, or sometimes bureaucratic, like Father Hesburgh of Notre Dame--are, in fact, the bane of Ignatius's existence. (They are the bane of most Catholics' existence, because they usually adopt a lofty air that implies they are somehow privy to the wisdom of Creation and a bunch of other theological secrets the rest of us are, quite literally, dying...
...Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen, Vice Premier Chang Ch'un-ch'iao and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan. The New China News Agency announced that the Party Central Committee, headed by Hua, had "adopted resolute and decisive measures to crush the counterrevolutionary conspiratorial clique and liquidated a bane inside the party." Despite those ominous words, most Sinologists believe that the four radicals had only been purged and not executed...