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...last area in the city that can possibly be reserved for some type of blue collar manufacturing, they don't want to see MIT commit the entire area to white collar office space. The residents also argue that they have the right to request limits on the height and bulk of the new structures, because the buildings will affect the quality of life in their area...

Author: By Steven R. Swartz, | Title: Danger Zoning | 10/1/1982 | See Source »

Similarly, Clarke strove to make his actors feel what it is like to be a killing machine. Although most of the troupe members were five or six at the height of the Vietnam war, Clarke has a clearer memory of the war because both his brothers fought...

Author: By Laura A. Haight, | Title: Hair in the Pudding | 9/22/1982 | See Source »

...prize-winning scholar and professor of Government here for nearly a decade, Verba assumed the position of associate dean of the Faculty for undergraduate education last year. The 50-year-old man of unimposing girth and height became one of the most important occupants of University Hall in the span of one year, initiating several substantive curriculum changes...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Scholar in UHall | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...cause, many Black students find a cruel sense of irony in the selectivity with which the national media paid attention to their actions. As long as the issue was simply one of a "segregated faculty," the media did not consider the issue worthy of note, they say. At the height of this spring's dispute, for example, the Law School announced a list of 10 new appointments--including three new assistant professors and several visiting and adjunct positions. All of the new appointments were white males, perfectly mirroring the all-white and all-male Appointments Committee the Law School...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Law School Dispute | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...York City Opera: "There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom." Playboy magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year, Shannon Tweed, is about the same height and weight as Mariel Hemingway, but her contours are different ? in the soft lines and curves that her beau, Publisher Hugh Hefner, finds so attractive. She will not try to change: "I think you can get too muscular. I'm not the jealous type, but I'd be jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Ideal Of Beauty | 8/30/1982 | See Source »

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