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In the first piece, "A Walk in the Country," Crews and some friends carouse through Tennessee. Stopping at a roadhouse, they meet Jake Leach, a man obsessed by a horrific memory. As a child of five, he had witnessed the hanging of an elephant named Alice, which had gone berserk...
There is no person in Washington who understands completely the meaning of $531.6 billion. The arguments last week about Jimmy Carter's national budget were surrealistic political rituals designed more for personal identity by the combatants than real evaluation of where we are headed. The AFL-CIO's...
WITH ONLY a year and nine months to go before election day, the 1980 Presidential races are heating up. As surely as a bird flying north marks spring, or the sounds of Mr. Test floating down Mem Hall mark exam period, the posturing, the hand-shaking, the favor-doing, the...
WHEN IT COMES down to it, the Republicans will drop off one-by-one splintering the field, throwing away public tax moneys from the presidential campaign chests to tell us how much money they want to save us in taxes, leaving the older war-horses (no more elephant jokes, please...
And, of course, it was true--Rosovsky's own adventures, playing midwife to a Faculty that thrashed and groaned like an elephant for three years before giving birth to a mouse called the Core Curriculum, are proof enough of that. Harvard, so they tell us, will last forever, and it...