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...were so shocked," Elizabeth R. Mason '81, one of the fifteen SHS board members last year, said of the survey's findings. She shouldn't have been. The so-called guides--selected on the basis of a brief application form--were let loose in September with only a pep talk from Kyriazi. Although the SHS charter empowers the board to "conduct ongoing evaluations of the program" and to dismiss guides who fail to "perform required duties," board members never checked up on the guides until January. "By the time we realized that we had done something wrong...
...Fifteen years ago, each time a handful of fanatic Crimson sailors wanted to ship out, they faced a trip to the MIT boathouse to launch their boats from floating docks. Now, at least, the Harvard skippers (350 to 400 of them) can use the Harvard Sailing Center's modern launching system...
...sitting up. · He brought along a hair dryer to blow out the candles on the six-foot-tall birthday cake. "I wasn't about to blow out 89 candles," said Colonel Harland Sanders, perkily paunchy in his familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started in 1956, but he still travels 250,000 miles yearly promoting the product for present owner Heublein, Inc. Lest anyone think he's less than finger-lickin' good at his job, the colonel led his admiring crowd...
Consider the market history of the late Paul Strand's work. Fifteen years ago, his platinum prints sold for $125. In 1972 they were still a bargain at $1,500. Today a good Strand...
...modern society that Sellars reads into Mayakovsky's vision seems to be a faster pace of life. As the play progresses, he raises decibel levels and frequencies, accelerates speech to screeching chatter and winds his actors up to near-epilepsy. And then suddenly--catanoia: the most tedious final fifteen minutes you'll ever want...