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...ancient days, before the advent of the Sorth of Bragadox, when Fragilis sang and Saxaquine of the Quenelux held sway, Arthur Dent awoke one morning in his modest home west of London to learn from a visiting extraterrestrial that the earth was about to be demolished. It had to make way for a hyperspace bypass. What happened next is too horrible to recount, but several hundred thousand inhabitants of the planet earth are familiar with the tale. That is a conservative estimate of the audience for Douglas Adams' 1979 luna tic masterpiece, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Earthbound So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...Black poor is unfounded Among the activities that Professor Kilson fails to the activities that Professor Kilson Fails to mention are those of social service. The Academy Homes Project, intergenerational Outreach, Colprep, and the Seymour Society are just a few of the groups will train to make a dent in the problems or Boston's and Cambridge's impoverished Professor Kilson should be aware of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kilson: Out of Touch | 3/2/1985 | See Source »

...winnings. By the way, I don't think Wilkins and his followers are getting off to a very good start, using resources of some Black graduates of Harvard for an ethnocentric Alumni Weekend gathering on March 1-3, rather then galvanizing such bourgeois resources to begin to make a dent in the crises of the Black poor. Why not tell -these Black Harvard graduates to show up at Harvard's Commencement--one of the most powerful college annual in-gatherings around--where they'd do much better for the Black poor by trying to persuade their White. Asian, and Hispanic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cosmopolitan Imperative | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...captain Hulbert made the biggest dent as she overcame a second-round loss to sixth-seeded Karen Kelso of Penn to advance to the semi-finals of the feed in consolation round...

Author: By Neil Mooney, | Title: Individual Racquetwomen Fare Well; Crimson Finishes Up Tourney As Team | 2/19/1985 | See Source »

Patron: Right you are. Like Barnicle says, "When Teddy is at McDonald's, you can watch the numbers change on the sign." Or how about, "You know where he stands: there's a dent in the ground," and-listen to this one-"Watching Ted Kennedy get out of a chair is like watching the Russians get out of Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 10, 1984 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

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