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...some of the most adventurous rock of the past decade. When it did not work, it sounded trendy or tuned out. But when it did hit, which was most of the time, it laid down rules and set new marks for others to follow. Bowie kept the cutting edge keen. There are few punks or New Wavers or art rockers or New Dancers dancing to New Music who do not owe him an abiding debt. Everyone from Gary Numan to Talking Heads and Human League and Culture Club ought to make a deep bow in his direction. If the success...
What follows is a blow by blow account of Harvard's summer game, and keen University-watchers will note quickly the haunting parallels to the regular college itself. The summer student, like the winter resident, must contend with the tribulations of Harvard housing: the scaffolds, the hammers, and a contract prohibiting "firearms of any type, animals and pets of any kind, air-conditioning and food preparation appliances, high-wattage appliances of any type, water beds, and motorcycles." Each also eats in the same dining halls responsible, as much as anything else, for the thriving restaurant economy in the surrounding Square...
After developing for ten years what is by all accounts a good working and personal relationship with President Bok. Rosovsky has gained a keen sense of the distinction between Mass Hall business and Faculty business. "There are enough tough issues to go around," he says, noting that he tells audiences he never discusses two topics: other faculties and MATEP. Harvard's embattled $250 million power plant...
...than if they meet each other in diplomatic roles. Here they're free agents," he adds. "The Center contributes to broaden them personally." Just being in the University community, in fact, can have that effect; In the late 1960's and early '70s, Brown says, the Fellows took a keen interest in the student marches and protests, and some of them actually joined them...
...about an American woman's visit to a stern, mountainous region called the Massif Central, where a centenarian and his septuagenarian son have their ancestral home. As always, the author's observations of local landscape, weather, architecture and gastronomical specialties (in this case, Roquefort) are as keen and winning as her insights into her characters. Most engaging is the 100-year-old Pépé, who after meals recites obscure La Fontaine fables and sings joyously while his lone tooth shines "unashamedly in his strong ancient face...