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After helping both the Harvard Delivery News Service and the Hasty Pudding Club through financial muddles last year, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III has apparently decided that "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This spring the College has begun to provide free financial consulting to some student organizations and next year it will offer fiscal advice to all interested campus groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track ... | 5/1/1982 | See Source »

...hardly hope the Reaganites will be more generous. We hope Bok will instead continue to use his considerable influence to further the educational causes that most need support in Washington, rather than distracting the lawmakers and confusing the issues with policy suggestons that would kill more than they cure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Flawed Meritocracy | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

...often conflicting things. Right-wing species included the "Moral Majority" conservative, who wanted the government to focus on social issues such as abortion, pornography, the status of the family, affirmative action, and busing; the liberation conservative, who wanted the government to do nothing; the fiscal conservative, who did not cure all that much what the government did as long as it kept a balanced budget; the neo-conservative, who was actually liberal when it came to social issues and government spending, but who thought it was time to beet up defense spending, and get tough on communism; and infinite combinations...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: A Thinking Man's Conservative | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...real Henry Fonda, who is suffering from a severe heart ailment, On Golden Pond was the next best thing to a cure. Despite having given some of Holly wood's finest performances of the past 50 years - in such films as The Grapes of Wrath, Twelve Angry Men, and Mister Roberts- Fonda had never won an Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Real Gold in On Golden Pond | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers have tired of hearing it. The result is that the author has gained a reputation as best known for being neglected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul on Fire | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

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