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...first industry angels were Eugene Harvey and Seymour Flics, then concert promoters, now Whitney's zealous managers and jealous protectors. In 1981 the team devised a game plan: they would develop acting and modeling as adjuncts to the music. Soon Whitney was doing a Canada Dry commercial and TV's Silver Spoons and Gimme a Break. She had already been cutting classes at her private Catholic girls' school to model for the Click agency. She later switched to Wilhelmina and appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Meanwhile she was sharing club dates with Cissy. Finally, at 18, she was ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prom Queen of Soul | 7/13/1987 | See Source »

Under his ruthless direction, the recruits learn to overcome feelings of compassion and to make their rifles their greatest friend. They are trained so that one day they will learn to shoot as well as Lee Harvey Oswald on Texas mass murderer Charles Higgins, both of whom the drill sergeant believes were part of the great brotherhood of Marines...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: AT THE MOVIES | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

...back. Kubrick seems slightly off the mark in portraying the tyrannical nature of the drill sargeant. The sergeant at times seems patriotic to the point of ridicule--tough so he can make his men great in the name of his country--but when he invokes the ghost of Lee Harvey Oswald as a great marine worthy of emulation, Kubrick makes the character appear aimlessly psychopathic...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Nordhaus, | Title: AT THE MOVIES | 6/28/1987 | See Source »

Science-Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif.: * Sometimes we need to fuse our lives again with those people who seem at times to be antagonists -- you young men especially, because it is hard for us men to profess our love. It is quite often very difficult for your fathers and for you. So for you young men, when the ceremony is over, I want you to run over to the old man. Grab him, hug him and kiss him and say, "Dad, I love you and I thank you for all the years." That's part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, A Few Words from the Wise | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

...hope that "students will not only be aware of moral tradition, but will have begun to understand themselves as reasonable and moral people, who begin to think about their own choices," the Moral Reasoning Core requirement attempts to teach modes of thinking about ethics, says Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who offers a Moral Reasoning course...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Training the Next Generation: Ethics and Education | 6/11/1987 | See Source »

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