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...those awards came for playing nuns, in Black Narcissus in 1947 and Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison a decade later. (The third was as the wife of sheepherder Robert Mitchum in the 1960 The Sundowners.) How congenial? In 1956 she was given a Hollywood bauble called the Golden Apple Award as Most Cooperative Actress...
...trip to one of India's numerous national parks, where jeep and elephant-back safaris will take you deep into the forest. Four of the best national parks are listed below; a few days spent in any one of them can open a window into a secret world, where golden-faced storks hover over the morning mist in ghostly congress, monkeys hold parliament on the branches of dead trees, and peacocks fight stately, formal duels while circling around watering holes...
Although none of us was actually alive during this golden age of true elegance, we pine for it no less strenuously, and wish HUDS would devote its superfluous expenditures to recreating Harvard’s classic gold coast experience rather than to installing newfangled machines. If we’re to truly honor the second Gilded Age in which we live, HUDS should put away the television monitors and kiosks and break out the gold leafing and bowties...
...from junior Marcel Perl. With his back to the net, Akpan flicked the ball past the diving Bears keeper. With that score, Akpan has now recorded a goal in each of the past eight games. He leads the team in goals (nine) and assists (six). A DIFFERENT STYLE The golden goal came during a scramble in front of the Harvard net in the 96th minute. It is fitting that the winning tally can be attributed to Brown’s scrappy play because it was a style that was on display throughout the contest. In the 90 minutes of regulation...
...this platform—would have been unimaginable even a few short years ago. Those who charge that universities are unable to change should take note of this transformation, of how different we are from universities even of the mid 20th century. And those who long for a lost golden age of higher education should think about the very limited population that alleged utopia actually served. College used to be restricted to a tiny elite; it now serves the many, not just the few. The proportion of the college age population enrolled in higher education today is four times what...