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...cough up money for fair old Harvard by many different callers for many different reasons--for their membership in a class, their hometown, their area of interest, and their children now attending Harvard. "If the annual and major gift [fundraisers] take separate tracks, they arrive on the same doorstep simultaneously," says Reardon...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: "Getting Over the Stereotype That We're Rich" | 6/3/1986 | See Source »

Miller showed up at the doorstep of Marvel Comics in New York in 1979, a twenty-one-year-old kid carrying nothing but his portfolio and a vague smell of the Vermont woods. He was put to work drawing Daredevil, a relatively minor Marvel book chronicling the glitzy adventures of a blind superhero...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: A Bat Out of Hell | 4/30/1986 | See Source »

...country is in the grip of "an outlaw regime" of Marxist-Leninists who torture pastors and burn down synagogues. Left to fester, Reagan warned the nation last week, the Nicaragua of Sandinista Leader Daniel Ortega Saavedra will become a "second Cuba"--worse, a "second Libya, right on the doorstep of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Tug of War | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...audience fairly broke up at the sheer bravura of it all. A lot of things contributed to the general satisfaction: shrewd staging, superb timing, movements that were sophisticated for all their mock violence. The vividness of Championship Wrestling helps explain why the dance world is converging on Morris' doorstep. These works are not internalized essays in autobiography or homages to the modern dance canon. When he choreographs, Morris seems to have the audience in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Seattle's Young Spellbinder | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...Crimson should fold and attempt to turn itself into the Salient or a party newspaper for the KKK, Playboy, the Nazis and every other evil in our society that we can think of. We should assault our readers with evil; we should distribute vile propaganda free to the doorstep of every undergraduate; we should use Square Deal tactics in pushing our viciousness on every passerby in the Square...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Don't Rationalize Away Sensitivity | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

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