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...hostility when they get home," says Cronin, whose committee operates a support group for students from working class backgrounds. "Their parents and friends will tell them. 'We're from Harvard, we don't have to get uppity.' And then they get back to Harvard and think, 'Gee, I haven't been to Europe...
...young father he takes his son, then eight or nine, to a crossroads tavern after a morning foray against the smallmouth bass of Wisconsin. The kid stuffs his face and observes: "Gee, Dad, this is the life, isn't it? Fishing and eating in saloons." A quarter of a century later he takes another tyke fishing, this time on Martha's Vineyard. "Grandpa," the boy asks, "did you grow old or were you made old?" These volumes provide the answer. He grew old gracefully and, like every other superstar, made everyone who watched him feel young...
...March. She and her new husband make "limited use" of their credit cards. Jeanne, the California businesswoman, is still paying but looks on her situation as "one of those life crises we will have to overcome together." One of the hardest parts, she says, was "the attitude that, gee, if I'm working, I deserve $400 suits and expensive dinners. No more. Now we plan a night together watching television. Or we go jogging...
...gurus get wired up to bio-feedback machines, and as the rational West more and more confirms the metaphysics of the intuitive East, someone you trust is bound to confirm a great deal of Wilber's work. Sure, there are a lot of fakes who take advantage of the "Gee-Whiz" aspects of the field. But the west is going to have to accept the study of levels of consciousness as the primary area of psychology and social science, and it should start with the work of a serious theorist such as Wilber, Pioneers such as John Lily and Timothy...
DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...