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CURRENTLY Harvard has the ludicrous policy of making Martin Luther King's birthday a "half-holiday" meaning that academic exercises should cease after 1 p.m. on January 15. That has been a sham for two reasons. One is that few events, if any are ever scheduled in the afternoon anyway--especially during reading period--so the practical impact is minimal. The other is that, because of strenuously lukewarm endorsement, professor have had little remorse about setting up lectures or review sections on that day anyway. If Congress proceeds to pass the bill, Harvard should immediately follow suit. But even...
Former President Richard M. Nexon declined an invitation to the conference citing a conflicting engagement. Gottlieb added Still he noted the assemblage of chief executives will be the largest since Regan and the three former Presidents gathered last spring to celebrate the birthday of retired Admiral Hyman G. Rickover...
...very necessary." Of course, Lippmann never practiced what he preached. As the personal acquaintance of twelve Presidents, Lippmann was the leading exemplar of what Columnist Colgman McCarthy calls "hobnobbery journalism." But he had become disillusioned in his 70s when Lyndon Johnson, with flattery and lies, with private lunches and birthday gifts, had tried to bear-hug Lippmann into supporting the Viet Nam War. "Every time I pull my chair nearer that guy," L.B.J. complained, "he pulls his chair farther away...
...Grapette," a melancholy narrator in his late thirties is unwillingly reunited with Carmel Seaver, an ultra-precocious 17-year-old who slept with him when she was thirteen and he was thirty-three, and who drives him all over town in daddy's birthday present to her, a telephone equipped Peugeot...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM takes the audience on a long detour most of the way through his musical comedy Company. Up until the very last scene, the plot focuses on a surprises birthday party thrown for Robert by five couples his best friends. Between repeated sequences of the same party we watch brief flashback type includes between Robert and each of the five couples who are trying to convince him to get married. Robert responds by becoming his rate as a single man hypocritically, because he is currently dating three completely different, unusual women. And when the first act ends exact...