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...MISUSE OF THE CONCEPT of apology has become a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Often, the President's pronouncements take the form of a staunch refusal to apologize, perhaps born of a desire to cultivate a tough-guy image. Usually, Reagan emboldens his notions with an appeal to morality; it is right to spend injudiciously on defense while slashing entitlements; it is right to cut taxes; it is right to repel the pervasive Soviet/Marxist threat. Any apology reveals itself to Reagan as a sign of weakness...
...Industries of Hartford, Conn., has come out with a battery-run table-top model, while Milton Bradley Co. will be offering a puzzle, a card game and a nonelectronic Pac-Man board game. In addition to a parade of toys, pajamas, lunch boxes and bumper stickers, there will be Hallmark cards and gift wrapping, Dan River sheets and pillowcases and J.C. Penney children's clothing. Says Midway Vice President Stanley Jarocki: "I think we have the Mickey Mouse of the 1980s...
...hallmark of literary modernism is the notion that readers must earn their places at the feet of the masters. Serious art requires extended initiations; Finnegans Wake is not for the fainthearted, nor will Proust reward the impatient. Isaac Bashevis Singer, 77, began writing at about the time that this avant-garde assumption was hardening into orthodoxy, and somehow he never got the message. He went on with his work under the illusion that authors were still required to prove themselves to their audiences, and not the reverse. He told stories as if daring any of his listeners...
...when Harvard students united to beat the high prices of textbooks and firewood. But ironically, the Coop of 1982 seems more a monopoly than a cooperative. Its vast expansion into Boston markets, in which few students participate, has helped deprive students of the membership control that was once a hallmark of the Coop...
Last year was a rebuilding season during which the team saw a limited schedule. More noteworthy, it did not participate in what had become a Classic hallmark--the spring adventure to foreign lands. Over the past few years. Harvey and his team voyaged to Puerto Rico. Gibraltar and Cuba. This year's jaunt to Northern Europe is the first one which has been student organized...