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In Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours/ Distress our fair ones -- let 'em read the papers." That advice is still being followed at supermarket check-out counters. In Jane Austen's Persuasion, a shut-in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talk, Talk, Talk Gossip | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

Even Bird comes back to the bench sometimes and hears, "Hey, we don't need that shot." Celtics can talk to one another this way. Says Carr: "Someone might tell me, 'You're goofing around too much. Cool it.' O.K. But we're together slam-dunking the ball with Parish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Sharing of the Green | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

b) The CRR's disciplinary powers are very similar to those of the Administrative Board, but with important exceptions. The differences are these: 1) The CRR has available to it more levels of severity of sanctions than does the Administrative Board, thus greater ability to fit punishment to the transgression...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On CRR | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

Here, too, Cap "the Knife" Weinberger '38 not his first taste of handing out marching orders (at The Crimson, no doubt) Hears Kissinger boned up on how to commit war crimes here. Let us not forget the Defense Department contracts Harvard racks up. It was here that napaline, which was...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: Anti-Apartheid Victory | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

More funny, and also more sad, is Petty's belief in the competence of American government officials. Whenever he is confronted with another piece of the government's insanity, he assumes there must be a reason. He hears about an American airplane designed to jam communications prior to an attack...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Defending the Hearth | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

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