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Which brings me to my final reason for looking forward to this shindig--you. Weddings portrayed in fiction always quake with an undercurrent of grave apprehension. The right She is about to be confined to the wrong Him, or vice versa, and the air screams with alarm as the clergyman calls out for somebody, anybody, to declare why this marriage should not take place...
...Prize poet, first read the Four Quartets (Eliot's World War II poem) in the Army-base library in Verona, Italy. "I loved the music; I loved the investigation of the past," he says. "The sound of it was so beautiful to me." The voice of the Quartets--meditative, grave, sorrowful, but also dry, experienced and harsh--has been important to poets from Wright to John Ashbery, because it allowed the conversational tone of everyday life to enter into the discussion of the deepest subjects...
...author made no mention of the death of affirmative action in admissions to schools in California and Texas. No discussion of randomization was to be found. He did not even tackle the inflexibility of the Harvard meal plan. Instead, the letter treated that grave disgrace of this campus: illegal postering on Thayer Gate...
Suddenly, the campaign-finance scandals seemed to have serious national-security implications. New investigative bodies sprang up in the House and Senate last week as legislators from both parties made grave pronouncements about the apparent security breach. But TIME's examination of the evidence suggests there may be less to the China connection than meets the eye. Investigative sources tell TIME there's no evidence that anyone in the White House knew Chung was funneling money from Chinese sources or that Chung ever lobbied anyone about the transfer of satellite-launch technology. Chung's lawyer, Brian Sun, insists Liu never...
Rudenstine's efforts began with a letter to Massachusetts Congressional representatives in which he said the Riggs amendment "could have grave consequences for American higher education as a whole...