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Only one Councillor--Thomas W. Danehy--voted against the motion, but three--Edward A. Crane '35, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Thomas H. D. Mahoney--abstained from voting. "I never give my vote in advance by proxy," Crane said...
Lack of any formal contests plus the difficulty of "writing-in" on voting machines rob today's presidential primary of any great significance. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) is the only candidate on the Democratic ballot, and Governor John A. Volpe is alone on the Republican list...
Cliffies argued that their goal was not to control the Council's decisions, but to represent one more point of view. "If we wanted to run the college," one said, "we'd ask for twenty voting seats. What we want is to have student opinion represented in decision-making...
...level of musical competence than one can reasonably expect of any undergraduate organization--even one as fine as BSO. The works, Mozart's overture to "The abduction from the Seraglio", Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, the Adagio from Mahler's Symphony No. 5, and Debussy's "L'Apres Midi d'une Faune", would trip up even the most agile professionals...
Optic Nerve. After his graduation, the Updikes took a year just for fun at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford, and in time he landed a staff job on The New Yorker. "He thought he'd be only a humorist," Mary remembers. "He didn't think of himself as a serious writer." Yet he spent words profligately in an attempt to translate his painter's eye into language, to catch and fix the thing seen and bring all the colors and shapes and textures of the visible world to bear on his narrative...