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...attention span of an eight-year-old. Fifteen minutes of work on his material and he's getting antsy. The Palm Springs spread is, like Disneyland, made to be toured, and Hope is soon whisking the visitor over his domain, stopping one minute to show off a photo of George Patton urinating into the Rhine, and in the next parading the wonders of his clothes closet, a room about the size of a C.E.O.'s office. There are a wall of shoes and long racks of blazers, slacks and other 19th-hole formal wear. "I wear them...
...know, the computer is sweeping every facet of academic, business, and daily life under its domain. Every firm, university, and household which turns so much as an eye to the future is currently investing a substantial portion of its budget to the acquisition, augmentation, or maintenance of a computer system. Universities are leading the charge, some attempting to provide every dormitory room with a terminal, others increasing fundraising and endowments for improvement of computer facilities...
Ronald Reagan had been beset before by political defeats and disarray, but never in such a cherished domain of his Administration. Whatever his struggles and stumbles on the economy and social issues, the President had always managed to press his program for national defense with seemingly unassailable determination and confidence. Yet last week-in Congress, public opinion and international negotiations-it was precisely his efforts to strengthen and protect the nation's military security that were in trouble...
...British influence is still strong. Gothic-style buildings are topped by battlements and covered with ivy. Faculty and honors students stroll along arched walkways in black academic gowns. The bell in Breslin Tower, modeled after Oxford's Magdalen, strikes each hour. The school's 10,000-acre "domain" is something of a feudal fief. In addition to the campus, quadrangle, bluffs and forests, Sewanee owns the town (pop. 1,900). The university's vice chancellor and president serves as mayor and city manager, overseeing municipal services. The students run the volunteer fire department...
Levine's heroine Sarah Galbraeth is not a preppy but an energetic low a ingenue who takes Harvard y storm in the early 60's. At that time Radcliffe student lived apart from Harvard, but Sarah breaks into the male domain when she comps for The Crimson...