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...years ago, the fondest hope of Carole Ely and Lore Harp was to escape the bored-housewives trap and do something really bold like, say, opening a travel agency. When Lore's husband Bob, a scientist at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, Calif., suggested that they think big and take a plunge into computers instead, they responded with what amounted to uncomprehending stares. Neither knew the first thing about the exotic world of computers...
...fondest childhood memories is of playing catch with my dad. Your cover story neglected to confront the problems that a child has in dealing with parents who are 30, 40 or even 50 years older than he. Had I been a "baby bloom baby," my memories would probably be of checkers rather than baseball...
...KRIEGER APPROACHES it differently. His fondest memories of the undergraduate singers will not be of their misadventures on tour or of their behavior during rehearsals, but of their art. Ask Bernie Krieger what his best times with the Glee Club have been, and he will spend most of his time talking about specific concerts--singing a Sanders concert under Nadia Boulanger, performing tudor music, music "in the halls for which it was written," singing under Bernstein for Pope Paul VI. There are other memories, of course: private conversations with members of the Czechoslovakian chorus, watching the sunrise with other Glee...
...turned, bowed low, gave the times a razz and dared them to catch up. The slow songs were heart stoppers, the fast ones adrenaline rushes of wit, low-down love and high, fabulous adventure. The songs became, all together, an orchestration of a generation's best hopes and fondest dreams...
...McCurdy concludes, "Like all Americans, we're looking for someone good to run-our fondest hope is we'll find an Anderson on our team...