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...writing to correct several errors in a Crimson article of March 5: "Farmworker Supporters Avoid Brush With Police." This article concerned a delegation of Harvard supporters of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) to the Boston office of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company...
...Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails to mention: like terrorist violence, Soweto riots, and other events irrelevant to our lives.) There are other goodies...
...this thing. I only wish he would put that cleverness to some more serviceable use." Jaynes, who realizes he has rewritten most of human history, expects "to be clobbered by all kinds of professors. If you're an archaeologist who has spent a lifetime working with a little brush at ancient sites, you won't want to hear from some psychologist that you have it all wrong...
...Marabel puts it, "A merry heart helps melt away the troubles." Does the housewife lack goals? "Write out your philosophy of life as a woman." Is it hard to get organized? Make a list of what to do today. "A total woman sets aside time to plan carefully." Also brush the teeth frequently, and use dental floss. "Be touchable and kissable." Marabel's books contain humane and practical advice on caring for children, but they also include characters like Harriet Habit and Phoebe Phobia and phrases like "putting sizzle back into your marriage" and "plugging into...
...Degas kept company with many of the great impressionists. These aesthetic revolutionaries sometimes went so far in theory as to advocate that an artist try to unlearn all the stylistic tricks of the trade, plant his easel in the middle of the wilderness and let nature itself rule his brush. Degas, however, eschewed this "surrender to nature" and insisted that the final construction and perfection of an artistic vision must take place in the mind...