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Another often-mentioned tendency related to cyclical College discussions is losing not only a sense of history but also of context. Sometimes the trap of viewing "Harvard as the center of the universe" waxes tongue-in-cheek, like the recent save-the-ivy debate when one freshman Student Assembly delegate boldly dubbed it "one of the graver issues of our time." But in the discussions preceding the vote approving Harvard's incoming student government, some students writing and reading the constitution viewed it as a bold and pace-setting document. Actually, a survey of Ivy League student governments and some...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Comparative Government | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

...metal harmonies of Muzak, bounces off the upholstery. They come to hear Jim's message, "You can make it too," and to have God heal their ills Bakker grasps a sheaf of prayer requests, closes his Teddy bear eyes, and allows a tear to trickle down his cheek: "And tumors and cancers and growths were literally dropping off your bodies...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Our Lady of the Country Club | 5/7/1982 | See Source »

Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Double Standard | 3/18/1982 | See Source »

...were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek. Taylor and Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married Taylor and the four-time-married Burton scotched notions that another wedding might be in the offing. Said Burton: "We love each other with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 15, 1982 | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

That heartfelt stasis is just what the best poems in this volume create. "How to Tell the Girls from the Flowers" moves from the peck on the cheek of its title into a brief and painful embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Voices and Harmonies | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

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