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...posterity. Today's college students were innocent by standers during the age of the perilous Platform Shoe, but they were willing (albeit junior) accomplices during the reign of Discowear and the Farrah-Do. Their historical reputation will be further pockmarked by the city dwellers who insist on dressing like cow punchers, cattle wrestlers, and bronco busters...
...result can "seem frightfully barren because they only want the meat of it." If the idea of a Seuss book being barren seems surprising, imagine the reaction of the occasional young visitor bold enough to call on the Wizard of Whimsy. "They expect me to be a cow with a nose that lights up," says Geisel with a shrug. "I'm too square...
...evidence that Mr. Lagon adduces to demonstrate left wing hegemony at Harvard is pathetic. Although leftists are alleged to so outnumber moderates and conservatives as to cow them into silence, Mr. Lagon can find but two names to cise. Professor Womack has spoken for himself: Professor Hoffmann, currently out of the country, cannot reply, so we feel obliged in come to his defense. He is charged both with being an "unremitting pacifist" and with leading the Government Department. The first accusation displays a pitiful disregard for the facts. Professor Hoffmann is so far from "unremitting pacifism" that he is willing...
...never felt so feminine." However, the black-bearded driver Alex, while helping a British woman carry her groceries, says aside, "I would never do this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President...
Andropov's announcement was an obvious bid to cow West European leaders into seeking a delay in deployment. It came on the heels of large antimissile demonstrations across Western Europe the previous weekend, and only a day after U.S. forces invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada. It was the second threat from the Kremlin in two days. Before Andropov's message was released, the Soviet Defense Ministry confirmed that Moscow was prepared to retaliate against Western deployment by moving new nuclear missiles into East Germany and Czechoslovakia. "Preparatory work is being started on the territory of the German...