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Unlike E4D, the class gift is not meant to foster social reform, but to get graduates into the habit of sending a check to Harvard every now and then...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: Class Gift May Break Records | 6/7/1989 | See Source »

...bureau chief, witnessing the wrenching decline of the American automobile industry. Then it was back to Japan, with his wife and two of their five daughters, again as Tokyo bureau chief in 1978. While in Tokyo, Reingold developed a penchant for typing his files standing up. He claims the habit encourages him to write succinctly and, of course, to keep on his toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jun 5 1989 | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...could read words, Gould found he could learn scores most easily while listening simultaneously to TV shows or the roar of a vacuum cleaner. Always, his remarkable gifts were shadowed by a perversity that drove him to torture the works he disliked (notably, most of Mozart), and by a habit of compulsive experimentation that made him treat even human voices as little more than sounds. Inspiringly, Gould saw music as his world; chillingly, he also read the world as nothing more than music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Mahler to the Elephants | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Anniversaries are television's most annoying bad habit. No TV series, it seems, can pass a milestone ending in zero (Barbara Walters' 50th special, Sesame Street's 20th season) without leading us on a forced march down Memory Lane. Now, saints preserve us, the 50th anniversary of TV itself has arrived -- at least by one measure. On April 20, 1939, RCA formally introduced the modern system of TV broadcasting at the New York World's Fair. One could just as plausibly trace TV's origin back to 1927, when the nation's first experimental TV stations went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Show-and-Sell Machine | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

Some things are just habit for the Crimson: Put nine men on the field, give up a couple of runs early, then try to make the dramatic comeback...

Author: By Christine Dimino, | Title: Batsmen Undo Engineers, 6-5 | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

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