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...told Adams House students the cause of the smell. A notice in the dining hall says that the authorities are working hard to cure the remaining problem, and dining hall director Robert T. Martin said yesterday. "When the odor's gone, then we'll be satisfied...
Cheever's own story has had some harrowing moments, but the hero seems to have come through handsomely. After a serious heart attack five years ago, he underwent a rigorous cure for alcoholism. He speaks candidly of the downward spiral his life had taken and of the connection between writing and drinking. "If you are an artist," he says, "self-destruction is quite expected of you. Orphic myths popped up early, showing singers being torn apart by Harpies to the infinite satisfaction of society. The thrill of staring into the abyss is exciting until it becomes...
...survived the purges by masquerading as an illiterate peasant. According to Kim, at least 80% of the Cambodians he observed before his flight were suffering from some form of mental illness. "The only emotional outlet in Cambodia is thinking about escape," he said. "Sometimes a change of environment can cure such problems, but I'm afraid most of our people have been permanently damaged." Which is another way of saying that Kampuchea's national song is no longer an anthem, but a dirge...
...sick of Harvard soccer teams that unluckily lose frustratingly close games? Relax, your cure is here. The Harvard women's soccer eleven journeys to Tufts this morning and they're "gonna win" as co-captain Julie Brynteson screamed yesterday, letting down her tactically cautious guard for just long enough to let her real confidence show through...
...successful summit in the Maryland mountains is not a cure for Carter's leadership problem. But surely it is a kind of achievement at the critical time needed to bring people a little closer to their President, to silence for the moment a lot of petty grievances that grew bigger than they should have THE WHITE HOUSE because of Carter's fumbling. It worked that way for John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really...