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...beyond Detroit, beyond Michigan and the auto industry, the breadth of popularity is truly remarkable. "He went out and did exactly what he said he was going to do," says Gordon North of Rochester, Minn. "He's probably the most honest man in America." Even the left-leaning Nation magazine permits kind thoughts for this particular captain of industry. "Iacocca is one of those rare adults who is capable of changing his mind," wrote Economist Robert Lekachman. Above all, Lekachman declared, "the juices of humanity course through his veins...
...subjects, in life and in art, do not automatically arouse emotions of terror or pity. High on any such list must be the spectacle of people complaining about how impossible it is to get good help nowadays. Yet that is the fundamental problem faced by the heroine of Mary Gordon's third novel. Anne Foster, 38, has just about everything, including a Harvard Ph.D. in art history and what one of her many adoring friends calls "the only decent marriage in America." Her bright and handsome husband Michael, a professor at a Massachusetts college, is due to spend an academic...
...fact that this dilemma is pertinent to the lives of millions of working women and, increasingly, men does not necessarily guarantee its success as the subject of gripping fiction. And Gordon appears determined to make her novelistic task as difficult as possible. The temporary solution to Anne's child-care quandary is introduced in the person of Laura Post, a large, drab woman in her early 20s who is hired as a live-in helper chiefly because no one else becomes available. Anne does not realize that Laura is a religious fanatic who believes she has been touched...
Commissioner Gordon vocalist Eva. J. Yablonsky '86 said that, when it comes to music played by Harvard bands, the most crucial element is the beat. "A lot of the bands at Harvard are trying to be very original, but if often comes down to whether it's danceable," she said, adding, "Many of the bands play music that is unfamiliar. It's great musically, but people just can't get down and boogie...
While there my be chances for band to perform, finding a place o practice can be extremely difficult. "Harvard's done what they can to squash the rock and roll scene," said James A Latham '84-85, guitarist for Commissioner Gordon, adding. "There's no decent place on campus for rock bands to practice...