Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Record--9-2-1, WRIST WRESTLING WOMEN below 105 Jacqueline Whitney 105-115 Grace Belfiore 115-125 Linda Riordan 125-135 Sarah Fisk above 135 Martha Malkin...
...Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus, reminisces about his days as a Winthrop House tutor in The Age of Uncertainty, his most recent book. In Galbraith's days, breakfast served as an integral part of that great Harvard educational institution, the dining hall, where many a bumpkin has learned grace, style and the art of fine conversation. Today, meals later in the day fill that role, and breakfast consists of a quick, watery egg to keep you going till lunch. All the same, when Dean Fox announced that only four Houses would serve hot breakfasts next year and that Mather...
That progression is no fall from grace. At a time when state and local governments are spending almost as much money and employing as many citizens as Uncle Sam does domestically, Peirce, 45, has emerged as the only national chronicler of grassroots America. In his weekly column, which appears in as many as 140 papers (among them: the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and Boston Globe), he discusses such topics as local energy-conservation schemes, the unionization of public employees, a freeway-turned-park in Seattle and redlining in city neighborhoods. His stories can have wide impact. A column...
...wisely. On paper, it would appeal both to snobs mourning the good old days and to libertarians rooting for the rise of the masses. The program's triumph was that things did not work out that way. Those who hitched on to savor the Bellamys' fall from grace remained to grieve and endure with them. Champions of the servants found it impossible to wish anything for them but the secure positions they were born to want...
...that is sarcastically humorous--often bitingly so, in a gratifying way--without making the entire novel seem frivolous or lightweight. Although there are problems with A Book of Common Prayer--perhaps a bit too much fun is poked at the adherents of all political movements and the interaction between Grace Strasser-Mendana and Warren by its very complexity is less effective than other points of the novel--it is by far a more impressive and complex book than a mere Patty Hearst story would be. Well, maybe not complex, but certainly of more consequence and interest than any discussion...