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...threatens the very core of this institution of higher learning almost as much as cutting off the UC’s party grants. By ignoring the earnest, non-partisan concerns of a humbly courageous anthropology professor, the Faculty have condemned us all to a future under the heavy fog of repression and hatred. Social lubricants be damned, we must build upon the wisdom of our classical forebears and proclaim that, at Harvard, there is truth in whining. Give us bitching, or give us death...
...Portugal, which holds the rotating E.U. presidency, used a mix of sunny charm and unwavering commitment to end months of legal wrangling over the jargon-bound minutiae that often make the E.U. seem like a dense fog to many of its citizens...
...drama in New York, and then in the filmed anthologies in Hollywood, he often played the nice-looking young man who was either hiding something from others or deluding himself. Watch him in reruns of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as an escaped mental patient who charms lonely Phyllis Thaxter in Fog Closing In, or the struggling writer fleecing an established one in Act of Faith. He's terrific in two episodes of The Twilight Zone: one as a fellow seeking a love elixir, the other as a man returning to his home town to find that no one remembers...
...Clouds of Jet Exhaust In "The Fog of Flying" [Aug. 13] Pico Iyer described his "week in the clouds" on business flights. I fail to understand what the purpose of such frenzied flying might be. Iyer apparently assumes that such behavior will impress people, but it certainly doesn't impress me. Sorry, but such senseless jet hopping has nothing to do with cultivated travel - plus it adds significantly to environmental pollution. And who the heck pays for that? Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus, Frankfurt, Germany...
...Clouds of Jet Exhaust In "The fog of flying" [Aug. 20] Pico Iyer described his "week in the clouds" on business flights. I fail to understand what the purpose of such frenzied flying might be. Iyer apparently assumes that such behavior will impress people, but it certainly doesn't impress me. Sorry, but such senseless jet-hopping has nothing to do with cultivated travel - plus it adds significantly to environmental pollution. And who the heck pays for that? Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus, FRANKFURT, GERMANY...