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Summer School students can join an eclectic crowd at the Center that includes doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital, staffers from WGBH TV, and even some crusty sea-faring alumni for day sailing, private lessons, and weekly barbeques. "We get quite an interesting social group together down here for the summer...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: 'The Coolest Place Around' | 7/10/1981 | See Source »

Cocaine is the caviar of drugs, except that it is 70 times as costly as the finest beluga. While an eclectic consumer might feel that caviar and a bottle of Bellinger brut give a headier, cheaper and wholly licit lift to an evening, many American hedonists get more of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cocaine: Middle Class High | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Still, because of that vote, the courses offered in the Gen Ed program became steadily more eclectic and experimental. Courses on everything from Pericles to silent comedies became part of Gen Ed, courses which, Wilcox notes, were very good in their own way but were sometimes educational refugees. "They were...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: While Venerable Gen Ed Withers | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Ely's songs, like those of his crony and frequent collaborator Butch Hancock, are bleak and wistful and angry, awash in the colors that Joe picked up on all of his magical misery tours. Ely's band, along with the traditional complement of bass, rhythm guitar and drums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Riding High with Hard-Luck Guys | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

When Baryshnikov, 33, was named to the post, he spent the year before his appointment took effect studying the troupe he would inherit from Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, who had guided it for nearly four decades. Misha had danced with the company and knew its strengths-a rich, eclectic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Baryshnikov Remodels the A.B.T. | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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