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...could still be) installed in the affected buildings. This step would have allowed students to forego frequent trips to a crowded Tommy's Lunch, a noisy Harvard Square, a sauna-like laundry room, or a neighboring house. Apparently, however, the University considers a convenient telephone to be a luxury item. Many students, on the other hand, do not consider it a luxury to speak with a teaching fellow, set up an appointment with a professor, or manage one's extracurricular affairs, not to mention calling the Harvard Police or the Escort Service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crossed Wires | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...debating whether she should have taken her lipstick on board. But it wasn't the first time that milestone fever has obscured just what was a big deal about it--and what wasn't. And those questions were amply illuminated by a sedate, tiny and altogether un-fevered wire item in last Wednesday's New York Times--a dry announcement of the appointment of Mary Donaldson, a former nurse in her sixties, as London's first female Lord Mayor...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Her Honor, The Lord Mayor | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

Milestone fever was entirely absent from the item, which listed Donaldson's former positions in the city administration--two of which she was the first woman to fill. The symptoms of milestone fever it did not demonstrate were numerous and encouraging. It did not include a sampling of opinion--the Lord Mayor's, her colleagaes', the public's or otherwise dwell on the difference it would make to have a woman in this traditional, little-heard-of and Shakespearean-sounding position. To do that would imply that maleness had been intrinsic somehow to the job in times of yore...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Her Honor, The Lord Mayor | 10/7/1983 | See Source »

...must have been a stunt double who wrote that item about me and The Legend of Walks Far Woman. I have done most of my own stunt work, much more than the insurance company would have liked, suffering numerous injuries in the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...Every item, including the artificial snow, was donated. On the day of the party a freak storm washed out everything in a few hours. With the assistance of the studios and some good friends, Mrs. Rathbone in a few hours reorganized her party inside the Beverly Hills Hotel and still realized some $10,000 for the charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 5, 1983 | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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