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...fact, the activities of the Eisenhower administration, the building of the Cold War, and the first public stirrings of the Black civil rights movement were for most Radcliffe students no more than faint impressions gained from an occasional radio news broadcast. Many alumnae remember being aware of the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, but mostly because of his direct attacks on Harvard, and an unusual foray into foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm...
...associated with coronary artery disease, faulty valves and heart muscle damage resulting from hypertension, heart attacks or excessive drinking. When the system shortcircuits, the heart develops abnormal rhythms, which can lead in extreme situations to fibrillation, a disorganized twitching of the heart muscle. The victim may suddenly feel faint or dizzy or fall unconscious; death can occur within minutes...
...symptoms: eyes focused in the middle distance, a smile as wide as a convert's and a telltale glint of metal covering the ears. The body may undulate with faint intimations of a boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback...
Though the vote on the second question is not binding either, it does allow at least an opportunity to show that we are not quite the sheep the men in Massachusetts Hall may think. It might be a beginning for reform more substantial that the faint-hearted efforts of the Dowling Committee...
...came up with the non-greatest hits album, Sucking in the Seventies. The collection, drawn mostly from the Black and BlueSome Girls-Emotional Rescue trilogy, lacks the bad-assed tone that once inspired you to embroider a red lips-and-toungue patch on a down parks, and has only faint traces of the weary, but often witty attitude of the past several years. Sucking is not a comprehensive summary of the Stones in the Seventies; they were better than this on everything from Sticky Fingers to the unjustly criticized Goats Head Soup...