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...back years of double-digit inflation for the first time since World War I, 7 million unemployed, a national debt of $934 billion-he warned that "we are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us." The fault, he said, lies in an explosive growth of Government spending, "punitive" taxes and excessive regulation that are sapping the economy's productive strength. The only solution, he said, is to slice both spending and taxes, deeply and together...
There are few signs of restiveness. Indeed, this singular young woman is hard to fault. She keeps up an easy, loving relationship with her father, from whom, presumably, she gets both her amiability and her height (Frank Shields is about...
Indeed, the fault did not lie with the Crimson at all; rather, Princeton's team effort outstripped Harvard's generally lackluster performance. Today, we will see whether the Crimson swimmers can exact a measure of revenge in this focal point of their season...
...really the fault of that former undergraduate dean who, after living through the strikes of a decade ago, told a colleague that the College should be shut down so the professors could get back to what they're really at Harvard for--teaching a few graduate students and doing their research. Nor is it the fault of the Business and Government schools that don't require courses in ethics. Nor can the blame be laid at the doorstep of those men in downtown Boston who invest Harvard's money in defense and energy stocks in order to keep the University...
NOBODY COULD FAULT Breuer on his showman's instincts, except maybe the blockish Cambridge bourgeoisie who have made walking out of Lulu all the rage. But all of this only makes Lulu a sort of elevated circus; a lot of the good things you could say about Breuer could be said about P.T. Barnum, with little modification. There is an awful lot of camp, and because of Breuer's theatre sense it almost always works. But it's still camp. And there are shock effects--I am thinking particularly of the murder at the end--that work as well...