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...Only Connect" was Forster's epigraph for Howards End, a plea to unite civilized ponds with subterranean wells of feeling. Unfortunately, he had no exact idea until age 30 of how men and women made love, a defect that Author Katherine Mansfield tartly noted in Howards End: "I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Man Behind the First Passage | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

...also plans to alter the controversial "back-In" provision of the 1980 National Energy Program. The rule stipulates that the Canadian government is entitled to 25% of any successful offshore oil discovery by a foreign firm. The party's position during the campaign last summer was to exact the same share as before, but turn it over to private Canadian companies willing to pay for the share instead of having the government keep it. From the point of view of U.S. firms, that still means an off-putting surrender of a quarter of any new discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Hanging Out the Welcome Sign | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

Normally, men are matched to women and vice-versa, but at Mather House 35 more males than females signed up. Only after five men withdrew and some women agreed to have two Santees did an exact pairing result. Winthrop House chose similar measures to balance their 220 participants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secret Santa Claus Is Coming to Town | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

Although the exact cause of death had not been ascertained yesterday, Mudge said Boucher probably died after his heart muscle had weakened from his body's rejection of the new organ...

Author: By Joseph F Kahn, | Title: Med School Transplant Patient Dies After Rejecting New Heart | 12/4/1984 | See Source »

Then holders of the longest active winning streak in collegiate swimming history. Harvard dropped more meets in a single weekend last year--two to be exact--than it had dropped in the six previous years combined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquamen Avenge Last Year's Losses | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

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