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...from even the late 1970s. The College's integrationist race relations policy coupled with pervasive apathy among all students, has made minority involvement in mainstream political and cultural groups more common, students and officials believe. And a cooling of divisions within the Black community also makes extracurricular involvement more fluid today than it has been in past years, students...

Author: By Holly A. Ideison, | Title: Evolving, But Remaining Vital | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...resulting patched leaks, painted walls and refinished floors have made inconveniences facts of life rather than bones of contention among students. But the most ambitious facelift of student facilities in Harvard's history has nevertheless necessitated a fluid planning process, foreign officials to strike a balance between maximum efficiency and minimal inconvenience...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Life Among the Scaffolds | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...with one thing on her mind. Here is the princely Dowell, once her dashing Oberon, as an even more unsatisfying lover, a sexually indeterminate gigolo with Saturday-night fever. At the end of the first, teasingly erotic pas de deux, Dowell effortlessly lifts Sibley aloft and, in one graceful, fluid motion, floats her offstage. The gesture promises a lovers' private communion. Yet, in the end, it turns out to be only funning foreplay: the stranger, it seems, is less interested in the lady of the house than he is in regaining his sunglasses and patting his pompadour back into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: An Affair To Remember | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

There were many moments before and during the operation when it looked as though Clark would not see his wife again. He was in the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive deterioration of the heart muscle. Clark's skin appeared blue from lack of oxygen, fluid was collecting in his vital organs, and his ravaged heart could pump only one liter of blood a minute, about one-seventh the normal rate. When Clark's heart started fluttering abnormally a day before the implantation was scheduled, DeVries decided the operation could not wait. His patient, he said, "probably would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Death of a Gallant Pioneer | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...tens of millions of Americans on the nightly news shows of CBS, NBC and ABC. Andrews came up to the camera crew. They stalled him, briefly, then set the camera rolling as he struck a match and touched it to his chest, which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went out. He stumbled a few steps toward the lighter fluid, splashed more on, returned to the camera, squatted and touched another match to his left thigh. A tiny glow appeared, then spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: When News Is Almost a Crime | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

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