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...Soviets continued to press Goldman throughout the lunch meeting; the dialogue between the scholar and his interviewers over the Faculty Club's salad and fish often resembled a cautious sparring match...
...Derek Bok's fault. Wasn't it Michael Dukakis who said about the Reagan administration's drug policy, "A fish rots from the head down"? Well, if this college is tense, then it must all start in Massachusetts Hall...
...snubs sycophants with an icy glance. But when she is surrounded by sympathetic friends, her conversation expands. She defends her obvious vanity: "This quality continues into old age and drives the desire to remain sexual, slender and fashionable." A self- styled vegetarian with a diet of fish, vegetables and pasta, Lear says, "People think older women who are thin don't work at it. They work harder at it." Each season she buys a new wardrobe of Chanel clothes and cruises about Manhattan on 65 pairs of black flats. "At every age a woman should feel she is dressed...
...proposing to make the owl a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may enable the birds, now numbering only about 2,500 pairs, to succeed where environmentalists have failed: it may halt or slow down an insatiable logging industry that has been turning ancient trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat...
...fatalism of that last line strikes Larkin's most distinctive note. He is not a poet to seek out for soothing assurances. Mortality haunted him. At age 24 he writes, "Death is a cloud alone in the sky with the sun./ Our hearts, turning like fish in the green wave,/ Grow quiet in its shadow." Some 31 years later, this confession...