Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CURRENTLY, IN ONE OF these oft-overlooked display cases on the fifth floor of Lamont, hangs on exhibit celebrating the fifth anniversary of The Salient, Harvard's conservative student publication. Arranged under a sign asking "Who says Conservatism isn't Progressive?" is a series of past Salient issues, ranging from the early, newspaper-like layout to the present handsome tabloid format, exuding an aura of mature respectability. But if editorials like Raymond C. Bonker's "Reagan Education Cuts", which unsurprisingly supports the President's pulling of the plug on student aid, and, surprisingly, takes seriously Education Secretary William J. Bennett...
...worn down from travel, or just sad and moody--I consider myself a moody person. But then the ball will go up, and all of a sudden I'm up too. It's wild." Gretzky, reaching that bracing elevation, can actually feel a shift in temperature. "When the play isn't so great, my hands are cold and my feet are freezing. But when it's really good, I can't get enough cold, it's so hot. And then I don't hear anything except the sound of the puck and the stick...
...hoopla isn't all commerce; a lot of it is pride and affection. "He put Sauk Centre on the map," approved the 8:30 a.m. coffee crowd at the Palmer House Hotel. True enough. No one ever made a metaphor out of neighboring Long Prairie or Gutches Grove or Alexandria...
...Negro. At the height of the civil rights movement, Sarah is in a lush girl's prep school. Her best friend, a white girl, asks her: "Don't you think it's rather romantic to be a Negro?...My father says Negroes are the tragic figures of America. Isn't it exciting to be a tragic figure? It's a kind of destiny!" In Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, 30 years earlier, a white philanthropist said almost the same thing...
...Soviet Union). Now Miss Smith is going to Hollywood. Starting later this month she will be filming the pilot of a new TV series called 55 Lime Street. In it she will play the daughter of Robert Wagner, an insurance investigator and horse breeder who is independently wealthy (Isn't he always?). Samantha's dad Arthur says he gave the parental thumbs-up after meeting Wagner and finding him to be "a family man, pleasant and low key." In fact, says Dad, Los Angeles was not at all what you might expect: "Everyone we met there was very down...