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...sacred territory, generally reserved for the "project," the book proposed by a candidate as part of his reason for coming. Each fellow has a study with the inevitable sliding glass door leading out to a first-floor terrace or a second-floor balcony. Before noon the most delicate knock on a resident humanist's door requires supreme courage. Even the ring of a telephone constitutes a gross intrusion...
...meet Moscow's seeming willingness to make concessions, the Carter Administration has lately taken great pains to be conciliatory. Last week it moved quickly to knock down reports of a new Soviet missile, the SS-21, being deployed in Central Europe. Said a senior American official: "It's not all that terribly important." The White House pointedly made only a mild response to Soviet harassment of two Moscow correspondents for U.S. magazines, Robin Knight of U.S. News & World Report and Peter Hann of Business Week. Said a White House aide: "I can just picture some dumb flunky doing...
...have to look no farther than Waltham to find a good Jewish school playing some steady if not spectacular baseball. And though Brandeis University, which defeated Harvard yesterday, 7-5, didn't knock down the walls of Jericho with its bats, the win was enough to give the Judges their third consecutive Greater Boston League title and sixth straight win over the Crimson...
...Monopoly, only the board has been changed around, and the dice are loaded. Every time you roll you go directly to jail, and whenever you do collect money it is in rials or yen. Worst of all, you have to play blindfolded while your opponents get to cheat and knock over the table in periodic rages...
...more than a decade, Columbia University Sociologist Herbert J. Gans spent his spare hours watching journalists go about their jobs at CBS, NBC, TIME and Newsweek. The result, Deciding What's News, is too plodding to knock David Halberstam's gossipy competitor off the bestseller charts. But Gans does offer some shrewd observations about life on the other side of the headlines, and some provocative notions about how it should be changed...