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They are exploring the idea both as a remedy for Harvard's chronic lack of teaching space and as a way of improving pedestrian traffic north of the Yard. But the scheme is still a long way from the drawing board...
...Benny Profane, a schlemiel (the Yiddish word for chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero. Shouts of triumph or yelps of protest are not for schlemiels; Benny's conversation is limited to "What?" and "Wha." The alligators come into it when he arrives in New York after a Navy hitch-the liberty scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole...
...failed to mention that the medical examiner found Hattie Carroll had an enlarged heart, suffered from chronic high blood pressure (for which she was being treated), and that no bruises were found as a result of a caning. Disappointing to a regular reader of TIME-for nearly as many years...
...listed two ways the corps could make such contributions. The first would be to increase the "visibility" of chronic problems which do not receive public notice, and therefore little public attention. He included in this group the plight of migrant workers, Indians, and the whole spectrum of evils publicized in Michael Harrington's The Other America, a recent account of poverty in this country...
...never have to worry about the future." The New Leader, a Manhattan-based biweekly with a circulation of only 28,500, wields influence out of all proportion to its size. It operates with a fulltime editorial staff of just three young men, threadbare offices and a chronic deficit. But to its loyal readers it remains one of the best journals of analysis and opinion in the U.S., distinguished for its international coverage and lucid reports of Soviet tyranny. "That the New Leader has survived these many years," said the magazine last week on its 40th anniversary, "is an understandable source...