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Founded in 1929--on the eve of the Great Depression--The Harvard Faculty Club, at 20 Quincy St., accomplishes more for the University than simply feeding faculty in an exclusive setting (although it does that quite well indeed). The Club is the gastronomic link that brings together Harvard's greatest minds under one roof, providing a venue for members of Harvard's diverse galaxy of faculties to commune and cross-pollinate their ideas as they partake of tender victuals...

Author: By Mare Zelank, | Title: High Class & Horse Steak | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Isolated moral failings go back to Biblical times (remember Adam and Eve's failure of self-control?), but what's new is the widespread cynicism, the lack of serious conversation among the intellectual elite about moral failings or even moral virtues. Wilson thinks the trend has something to do with the popularization and distortion of ideas from the fields of philosophy, evolutionary biology and cultural anthropology. Whatever the causes, all I know for sure is that this moral indifference is very much a fact of life at Harvard...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: A Parting Shot: The Moral Sense at Harvard | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

...late-night TV gig as New Year's Eve show repels Fox's owner

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Jan. 24, 1994 | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

...they had no gender, despite the sentimental Victorian image of the pale virgin with wings. Milton's angels, however, among the most vivid in literature, were robust figures who ate and drank freely. Raphael, in fact, "with a smile that glowed/ Celestial rosy red," blushingly explained to Adam and Eve how angels make love, "Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, / Total they mix, union of pure with pure/ Desiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angels Among Us | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

There is no possibility of redemption for Satan and his minions. Unlike Adam and Eve, the fallen angels were not tempted to sin but chose it out of untrammeled free will. They have no excuse for disobedience. And as the ages roll, heaven grows further away. "Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell," Satan moans in Paradise Lost. Even in majestic ruin, Satan is certain only of the dark path he is doomed to pursue with seraphic fortitude. "Farewell remorse," says the angel who can no longer look homeward to heaven. "All good to me is lost; Evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy for the Devil | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

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