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...heavy foot traffic, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management has begun reinforcing them with fieldstone and new plantings. But a group of local naturalists, called Walden Forever Wild, contends that to change the pond's setting is to destroy it. The naturalists want Governor Michael Dukakis to put a halt to the renovation and declare the park a sanctuary, with only guided tours permitted. That would restore the pristine conditions Thoreau loved -- but would reduce the number who could share his fascination with a spot that, in his words, radiated "liquid joy and happiness...
...Salinger may not talk much to reporters, but the author of The Catcher in the Rye does talk to his lawyers. Last year he directed them to halt publication by Random House of an unauthorized biography by Ian Hamilton. The reclusive Salinger objected to the book's use of excerpts and summaries from scores of private letters he had written. Last week (a busy one for literary law watchers after the Bell Jar settlement) a Manhattan federal appeals court ordered a preliminary injunction blocking the book "in its present form...
When the craft finally skids to a halt at the bottom of the humongous Eastman-Kodak screen, fog bubbles up from the floor of the theater, and olfactory stimuli (Blown circuits, melted metal, Vicks Vapor Rub) tingle the audience's orgiastically flaring nostrils. Honest: Huxley's Feelies are alive and well and playing every hour on the hour (even as you read this) in the heart of Central Florida...
...rebellious university in Hefei. In addition, Liu Binyan, a prominent journalist, was expelled from the party for attacking Marxism as an "outdated ideology." It was unclear how many more heads might roll, but little doubt remained that China's latest experiment in political relaxation had come to a halt...
Most experts who try to chart the course of racism over the years now believe that the substantial gains of the 1960s and 1970s came to a gradual halt after the election of Ronald Reagan. "The resurgence of racist feelings and continued illegal discrimination are fostered by the Administration's refusal to admit that racism may still be a problem," says Urban League President John Jacob. More specifically, he cites "its efforts to give tax- exempt status to segregated schools, its fight against extension of the civil rights law, its efforts to undermine affirmative action, to destroy the Civil Rights...