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Duke recently won a British award for Most Promising New Actor. At 29, the boy seems a bit long in the tooth for rookie of the year; in the best Wodehouse tradition, one wishes him finer fortune in sturdier stuff. Carry on, Duke. - By Stefan Kanfer
...President, Jimmy Carter was a devoted cheapskate. He sold the presidential yacht, curtailed White House magazine subscriptions, and took away the limousines and office television sets of aides. But now that he is back in private life, Carter seems to have acquired a taste for the finer things. He asked the Government to buy a $15,000 wool carpet and two chandeliers costing $3,500 for his federally funded office in Atlanta. Even the General Services Administration, not known for its thrift in dealing with ex-Chief Executives, balked. So Carter managed to buy the rug below list price...
...half-hour animated shorts. They found that quintessentially nasal nabob, George Plimpton, 55, already familiar to many a younger viewer not as a writer (Paper Lion) but as the Intellivision pitchman. Beginning next month, Plimpton will settle into a comfy padded chair to lecture his preliterate charges on the finer points of animation in such Disney classics as Steamboat Willie and Goofy's How to Play Baseball...
...course, we must read contemporary authors just because they are contemporary, and because a few of them are important interpreters," said Bush "But we can renew and nourish our humanness much more fully by living with the writers of finer genius and insight who recognized both the littleness and the greatness of man Within our own small personal universe, we can call in the old world to redress the balance of the new," he added...
...LEGACY of Peter Sellers '80 has bequeathed to Harvard a finer appreciation than before of theatrical innovation. During Sellars' four years here, the community witnessed productions that reached to the outer limits of interpretation and experimentation. Now a talent the greater theater world need reckon with, Sellars clearly knew what he was doing, and he rarely came up without pearls. Unfortunately, his example also marked student theater with a mad and often careless pursuit of creative spontaneity, an excessive emphasis on the experimental side of drama, that now plagues and even stems its creativity...