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...Harris play a love-hating couple. "This role is basically ironic . . . it pleases me because I believe it is within my nature," says Sophia. That is not necessarily intended to be a comment on her 19-year marriage to Carlo, however, despite stories of trouble in the Ponti household. Often on Friday, when Loren finishes filming in Rome, she flies to Paris, where Ponti and their two sons are living...
...centrality of the public household...is, to go back to Aristotle, a 'concern more with the good condition of human being than with the good condition of property.' It is a recognition of the distinction between ends and means and the reinstatement of social purposes as the 'good condition' which public policy has to seek. It is the centrality of conscious decisions, publicly debated and philosophically justified, in the shaping of directions for the society. Where bourgeois society separated the economy from the polity, the public household rejoins the two.... The public household requires a new socio-economic bill...
...same numerical strength that has made Xerox a household word has also fed an epidemic of Xeromania. There are 2.3 million copying machines in the U.S., and last year they emitted an estimated 78 billion copies-enough to paper Long Island from shore to shore and, if laid end to end, to girdle the globe 546 times at its widest point. Those numbers are double the figures of five years ago, and are expected to more than double again in five years. Hardly any school or library is without at least one machine, and the Xerox seems to have replaced...
...frequently students, members of the Faculty and visiting dignitaries. This arrangement benefits both the University and the students who gain from the social and intellectual contact with the masters and their guests. In recognition of the fact that the performance of these duties requires the maintenance of a large household and the serving of considerable quantities of refreshments beyond the normal family social needs, the University provides an entertainment fund to each of the masters. The master is free to use this fund in the manner which best fits the requirements of maintaining his or her residence. It is quite...
...funds, and some overemphasized the extent to which the funds were intended for students. Subsequently obtained University guidelines for the entertainment allowance show that the $7500 fund is vaguely intended to meet expenses incurred "for the benefit of the University." The guidelines suggest masters may use the fund for household staffs and functions to "entertain students, faculty and guests of the University...