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...debate panel president decided against wearing "either a toga or a tux to the finals." This last round is in grave Nassau Hall, where, the hosts claim, Princeton Students James Madison and Aaron Burr held forth, off-topic, 211 years ago. The Princetonians want the debaters to heed the chamber's cavernous propriety. "To waste this room on worn-out double-entendres would be sacrilege," says Bob West, '81, back for the tournament. Indeed, the puncturing blasphemies are scarce during the final round. (Only one wispy student, speaking from the floor and pointing to the room...
...moment's notice, the Government could stoke the economy by cutting taxes, increasing spending and expanding the money supply. "There is a zero chance of depression," says Richard Rahn, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He scorns the loose depression talk. "The wimps of the world," he says, "buckle when the going gets a little rough...
Nestled in the grey-green Monadnock mountains of New Hampshire, there's a place--let's call it Pear valley-- where people gather during the summer to play chamber music and lose their virginity. Not quite a music camp, and certainly not a bunny farm, it defies conventional classification. Ask any of its devoted alumni (and there are dozens at Harvard) what it is, and you'll get a dreamy look and something like, "Oh, it's just magical. We went skinnydipping and played the Mendelsohn Octet until 4 a.m. Like, it's the most amazing experience I've ever...
...group of talented Julliard and Oberlin graduates who had escaped the rigors of New York competition to find themselves and true musical integrity in the woods. In the winters they taught part time at local colleges, and some played in the Pear Valley Ensemble, a fairly well-known chamber music outfit, which tours New England regularly. Mostly pushing 35, these nature loving artistes compensated for varying degrees of career frustration by clinging to remnants of their adolescence...
...hinted at his uncertainties as he delivered speeches in 50 nations through the 1970s. But to ease his internal strain, he took a leave of absence from his Bethel duties early in 1980. Meanwhile, the Governing Body had begun a secret investigation of heresy rumors, and it used star-chamber tactics. Initially there were no direct confrontations. Instead, staff members were allegedly threatened with disfellowshipping to get their testimony about doctrinal discussions with others. On May 21, Franz was summoned to Brooklyn for a fateful grilling by his Governing Body colleagues. Did he doubt that Jehovah had only one chosen...