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...question, a reclining era of good tans, big parties, beach reading, girl-group music. The stars are bigger than they have been in a long time, selling more billions of dollars worth of records and movie tickets than ever before. Celebrities are more numerous, but their fame is briefer: the half-life even of putative superstardom can be as short as a year. Fads are announced, exploited and abandoned even before Good Morning America can cover them. Philanthropy has turned into a series of prefab, single-issue Woodstocks (Live Aid, Farm Aid, Hands Across America), and the U.S. has twice...
...seven-year-old in Atlanta. He has only been refining his political beliefs for the past four years, but his commitment to democratic socialism and his conviction that many of today's international problems emanate from American foreign policy are no less intense or deeply felt despite his briefer commitment to them...
...anniversary year, the 25th, 35th, and 50th reunion classes not only hand over more donations than usual, but also tend to give larger gifts, says Reardon. "People who have a good time at the reunion pay it back significantly," says Briefer. "It wouldn't be worthwhile to run reunions if that weren't the case...
About 1000 children of members of the Class of '61 will be divided up into five groups--Blue, Orange, Green, Red, and Grape--according to age, said Marion R. Briefer, associate for major reunions...
...have to recruit them," Briefer said. "Once they get here, and they have a good time, we don't need...