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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While 14-year-old Laurel (Sallyanne Tackus), Mrs. St. Maugham's granddaughter, may not be certifiably mad, she does lead a bizarre fantasy life. She claims to have seen her father commit suicide when she was twelve, though he died of an alcoholic liver. In that same year, she insists, she was raped in Hyde Park, though this is her symbolic retaliation for her mother's remarriage. She is also a live-in pyromaniac who blithely announces: "I set fire to things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Owl of Wisdom | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

WHETHER THIS request by the college is purely an informational move, designed to help accomodate disabled students while Sever Hall--Harvard's largest classroom building--is closed for renovations next year, or an attempt to force disabled students to commit themselves now to all of their fall courses depends on who you talk...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: A Moving Question | 5/5/1982 | See Source »

...Epps III, dean of students, who initiated the project, said this week that Harvard would pay about $500 annually to allow undergraduate groups to seek the consultation of John A. Tyler, partner in the Fresh Pond accounting firm of Goodness and Tyler. Tyler said yesterday he had agreed to commit 60 hours per year to advising Harvard groups...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: College Providing Free Advice On Finances to Student Groups | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

...FALKLAND CRISIS should have added to the momentum initiated by the Nicaraguan proposal. The Administration should have seen that not only do Latin American leftists behave reasonably when given a chance, but that Latin American rightists can commit actions just as onerous as the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But instead, the Reagan administration bungled both the Argentine and Nicaraguan situations, returning to its naive East-West explanation of the world. Despite Nicaragua's acceptance of the U.S. proposal for talks, which probably surprised Washington, a government "source" in the Washington Post recently declared the government's conviction that the Sandinistas...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: An Opportunity Missed | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizing Women at the Top | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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