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...Supreme Court ruling administered the coup de grace to one of the Administration's major political blunders. It stemmed from the Internal Revenue Service's denial of tax exemptions for Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., which bars interracial dating and marriage, and the Goldsboro Christian Schools of Goldsboro, N.C., which excludes black students. Rejecting tax breaks for discriminatory schools had been IRS policy since 1970. But Bob Jones University and Goldsboro Christian sued, claiming that their racial practices were dictated by religious beliefs and were thus constitutionally protected. On Jan. 8, 1982, Reagan, bowing to pressure from...
...lunatic traffic jam they inevitably create. He then abandons this marvelous scene entirely to turn himself into a spiflicated patient entangling him self in a revolving door, a sequence that turns out to be even more brilliantly timed. Unknown Chaplin offers dozens of examples of this kind of comic grace under self-generated pressure. (He was obliged by his Mutual contract to turn out a film a month, and later, when he was entirely his own boss, it was his money that he could see gurgling down the drain when inspiration failed...
...writers, in or out of science, shape a better written line. In three popular books, to say nothing of several scientific ones, he has shown that he can bat out complex ideas with all the grace of his childhood hero, Joe DiMaggio. His writings have won a cluster of honors, including a 1981 American Book Award for his collection of essays, The Panda's Thumb, and a 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Mismeasure of Man. His latest chrestomathy reaffirms Gould's position alongside Physician-Essayist Lewis Thomas as an indispensable bridge between the "two cultures...
...doctrine ("Birds cannot actually fly; they are merely prodigious leapers!") collide with the grim fantasies spawned by anxiety ("Perhaps there will be an earthquake and we won't have to take exams"). One sits at a chair and looks out the window. Cambridge does not even have the grace to be covered with snow ("What if Harry Levin actually wrote the plays of Shakespeare?"). Sulphur-laden ice spreads like cancer over the Charles and Roast Beet Specials cost 60. ("If the Atlantic rose a few inches. Boston would be devastated and there wouldn't be any exams...
Based on their performances in last weekend's Heptagonal meet. Crimson thinclads Jin Johnson Adam Dixon Steve Ezeji-Okoye Brad Bunney, Dwayne Jones Doug Boyd and Gus Udo made the All-Ivy men's track team Harvard placed Kare Wiley Jenny Stricker Grace deFries and Mariquita Patterson on the women's All-Ivy squad...