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...street" made him a millionaire catalyst of the disco-music craze; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Bogart at 27 first corralled the teeny-bopper record market with "bubblegum" music like the indigestible Yummy Yummy Yummy ("I've got love in my tummy"). With his sure instinct for slick commercialization, he was a key shaper of the success of such pop singers and groups as Donna Summer, Mac Davis, the Village People and Kiss. An occasional co-producer of expertly hyped movies as well (Midnight Express, The Deep), Bogart garnered 60 gold and 24 platinum records...
Inexcusable, however, is his superfluous observation that an inordinately high percentage of these intrusive callers have been women. He mourns for the atrophy of some peculiarly female instinct for the sanctity--the inviolability--of the nest concluding of course that the attenuation of such feminine gentility can be attributed to "the wide-spread professionalization of women at Harvard...
...handed the Minutemen their first loss of the season, 12-8, boosting its record to 6-3. Harvard returned to the form that had carried the squad to five straight victories earlier this season, with a well-balanced offense and tight team defense. The inexperience and lack of killer instinct that hampered the Crimson in earlier games were noticeably absent from this contest...
...being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open the U.S. and Soviet Union to mutual military surveillance ("open skies"). "I'm tired of dealing with mature men already...
Anderson: I think there's a latent instinct to the left in most students....to the extent that few students would have voted for Reagan, most students read Doonesbury and smile. There's a sense of passive knowledge about what things are about that's not that different from the collective awareness of the Sixties. The problem is there are other things that are more compelling that are on their minds.... You can't blame someone for wanting to get into a good professional school, to get into a good firm...