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Normally, Hanover, New Hampshire is a fairly quiet place. Dartmouth College exists there as "the granite of New Hampshire," as its leaders like to say--a solid institution whose changes, though perceptible to the keen observer, are usually so gradual that they appear natural. Except for an innovative college calendar which requires students to spend a summer at the College on the hill. Dartmouth's administration has usually adopted fairly conservative policies. Dartmouth, for instance, was the last Ivy institution to admit women as undergraduate degree candidates (although the first woman graduate student received her degree...
...Venturing beyond easy and merely plausible answers about how a good man succumbs to evil forces, Playwright Taylor has etched the profile of an insidiously disarming process. That process was perhaps best described by Britain's belletrist of metaphysics, C.S. Lewis: "The safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts...
...movie subserves the message about . Roman's portrayal of Sabine reveals an honest to fit in. Initially, Sabine appears to be nondescript--an average, appealing woman. But as the movie progresses, she becomes more and more attractive. Romand enables this gradual transition to occur by maintaining a freshness in Sabine's character. Her graceful movements and low lilting voice give Sabine's a youthfulness that shows the transitory nature of her desire for a husband...
Other possible solutions include a gradual transfer of authority from Britain to China over a 15-to-30-year period, or joint rule by a two-nation committee. Another way out of the impasse would be a deal that makes an artificial but face-saving distinction between the recognition of sovereignty and its actual exercise. Britain could recognize Peking's claim, fly the Chinese flag alongside the Union Jack over Government House and make other symbolic concessions while maintaining its present administrative control. Noted a British diplomat: "This would replace the fiction that Hong Kong is part of Britain...
DIED. Sobhuza II, 83, king of Swaziland and the longest-reigning monarch in the world; in Mbabane, Swaziland. The autocratic but mild-mannered Sobhuza ruled his small, landlocked southern African nation of 550,000 by balancing observance of his country's ancient traditions with gradual introduction of modern technologies. A man of simple tastes, he shunned his two royal palaces, preferring to live at his kraal of mud huts and to sleep outdoors on warm nights on a reed mat. He is survived by more than 100 wives and an estimated 500 children...