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...John Grey Gorton is what Australians call a larrikin-a rough-hewn fellow who often embarrasses his colleagues. Elected Prime Minister in 1968 after the drowning of Harold Holt, Gorton rarely consulted Cabinet colleagues and totally ignored backbenchers from his Liberal Party (which, despite the name, is markedly conservative). When he proposed legislation last year to take away the states' powers over off-shore mining, his party colleagues refused to support him, and he was forced to make a humiliating retreat. Gorton's personal style was, to say the least, indiscreet. He once arrived late...
...court yesterday, J. Michael Harrington Jr. '43, a Ropes and Grey attorney, and Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, asked Superior Court to waive Harvard's request for a temporary injunction. Judge Frank W. Tomasello granted their request...
...ONLY book I can remember crying over when I was a kid is E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. I was ashamed for having cried, and I still am, but there was something about the death of Charlotte, a common grey spider, that made me unable to help it. Her death doesn't seem so sad now-all spiders have to die at the end of a year, and Charlotte dies only when her time comes...
...idea of how to spend a little under an hour in the theater, but for anyone who wants to seek out and comprehend the deepest wellsprings of drama, it is an hour well spent. Within the past two weeks, Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where The Grey Lady Cantata is housed, has offered playgoers: Subject to Fits (a free-form fantasy based on Dostoevsky's The Idiot), Slag (claustrophobic feminine hysteria in a decaying British girls' school) and Here Are Ladies (see below). The handsome landmark building on Lafayette Street in Lower Manhattan carries the exciting...
...dream of this reality is "a great web of patterning oscillations and quiverings" somewhere in a "finer air" beyond the earth. She visualizes a perspective from which mankind looks like "a minute grey crust here and there." Amid the harmony of the spheres "life is one" and "I" is no longer divorced from...