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...rules can be improved, if there is a next time, as there should be. Among those unhappy about the format of the debates were the networks, who usually bring you their own superstar versions of all political occasions, concentrating as much on themselves as on the politicians. They were frozen out this time, confined to tacked-on programs of later commentary. These were pretty lame, epitomized by Eric Sevareid, furrowed brows and all, concluding glumly that it was all old stuff. In the final debate, Bill Moyers got it better: both sides, he suggested, punted a lot. On public television...
...book has the same size, feel and illustrated mini-encyclopedia format as the author's last two manuals, The Joy of Sex and More Joy of Sex. But this time British Author Alex Comfort, 56, is trying for a pop bestseller on old age, not sexual hydraulics. A Good Age (Crown; $9.95) is Comfort's attack on "agism"-prejudice against the elderly, which he considers society's most stupid bias. After all, the elderly are the only outcast group that everyone eventually expects to join. "I wonder," says Comfort, "what Archie Bunker would say about Puerto Ricans...
...format of the conference will include presentations of formal papers written by both Harvard and Mexican specialists...
This year's council has not chosen any format to work in yet. Robert W. Jones '80, a representative from Matthe South, described the meetings as disorganized and wasted on details, but he still believes things will be accomplished when some order is attained...
...kept from enrolling in my course at this particular time. In a long, thorough, and at times painful discussion, it was agreed that all the students then in the room (nine women and three men) could not fruitfully participate in a single seminar, structured in a discussion format, because of the great range of preparation, experience and expectations. We therefore had to decide which of two possible courses we were going to have: one that was elementary, descriptive and historical, or a more advanced and theoretical course. It was apparent that the three men in the room lacked the basic...