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...bottom line is a tarnished reputation and the prospect of being out of work in June, when his appointment at Princeton finally expires. But for the entire profession there seemed to be another bottom line, defined by a senior historian and A.H.A. committee chairman who, after all the furor, insisted on anonymity. "I feel an immense sadness," he said. "We have not shown our best face to the world...
...amazed when I picked up last Tuesday's Crimson (12/11/84) to find the omission of the most newsworthy story that day. The cries of anger and furor issued from the Black students were so forceful I would have expected them to reach the usually acute ears of Crimson editors. These Black students were appalled to find out that Benjamin L. Hooks the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of colored People(NAACP), came to visit Harvard University and they were not welcome to participate in the event...
...Researcher Cristina Garcia, who looked into trends in the Chicago area, does not own a VCR. "But," she says, "I already find myself browsing for films in video stores the same way I shop for books." San Francisco Correspondent Dick Thompson rented a machine to see what all the furor was about, and promptly ODed on movie tapes. "Strange things happen to rational people when they are faced with rack after rack of ad venture and romance in a video store," he muses. A VCR now heads Thompson's Christmas wish list. The children of Christopher Porterfield, the senior...
...furor, if you remember, centered on the playwright's objection--based on third-hand reports--to the ART's change of locale from a bare room to a subway tunnel, the use of incidental music by Philip Glass, the large puddle at stage center, and what Beckett's agent called the purposeful casting of Black actors in two of the play's four roles...
...Pope's lectures reaffirm a centuries-old Catholic belief, formalized in Pope Pius XI's 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii and Paul VI's 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae. The Pauline document, which created a furor, declared that "every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life." The reason: "In the plan of God" there is an "inseparable connection" between the "unitive meaning and procreative meaning" of the marital act. John Paul, when he was Bishop Karol Wojtyla, wrote an enthusiastic preface to the Polish edition of Humanae Vitae and was among the bishops who most vigorously...