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...while members of the class of '69 occasionally return to Harvard, ROTC hasn't--at least not in its original form. After the turbulence subsided, the Faculty ruled out the possibility of a club for ROTC because it felt a club would be "just a fig leaf apparatus to cover the actual group," according to Wilcox...
...nation's highest post. Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, 68, surmounted that obstacle last November, when he was chosen by the Communist Party's Central Committee to succeed Brezhnev. Andropov was relieved of his job as KGB chief six months earlier and moved to the party Secretariat, but the bureaucratic fig leaf deceived...
...Steaming, already running at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater, three out of four new British entries are by women, possibly because Britain's feminist consciousness is just now peaking. Top Girls displays some postfeminist tristesse; only Steaming seems earnest in its feminist polemics, ironically garnished with pre-fig leaf nudity...
...respectable college term paper rolls of the Smith Corona before midnight. Thus, the all-night dive. Store 24 (1438 Mass Ave.) provides everything from soup to nuts for the odd hours gourmand. Fig Newtons are just as delicious as you remember, and Mom's not around to stop you from eating the whole box. Brigham's has sour coffee and bad ice cream. Both used to stay open 24 hours a day. Now they close before 3 a.m. No class...
...idea of addressing the flower of American womanhood would terrify me even if I could see"), declined by invoking a story about a World War I soldier who, peering down into a bottomless enemy trench, allowed that "I wouldn't go down there even if they was Fig Newtons down there." The cookie does not crumble that way any more. The cookies, in fact, do not crumble at all. This does not mean charm is passé, or compliments are sexist, any more than it means that, contrary to all those shoofly Schlaflyisms, men and women will be less distinctive...