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...Tower of the Juche Idea, a 561-ft. stone column topped by a 66-ft. torch that glows at night. Across the Taedong River is the 600-room Grand People's Study Hall, a new national library. Near by is the Arch of Triumph, a 198-ft. marble landmark that comfortably straddles a five-lane avenue...
...lava for any bedroom, not to mention a Lowell House single. But Faye Levine is only the latest in a long series of Harvard novelists whose scenes of passion defy all reasonable expectation. Who, for example, ever would have anticipated the peculiar interest several writers demonstrate for one Harvard landmark...
...United Nations Special Commission Against Apartheid in New York. That same week, we held a national conference on apartheid in our Massachusetts State House with representatives of over 35 states resolved to end investment in companies who do business with South Africa. Here in Massachusetts, our legislature enacted landmark legislation which requires the states to tell all its pension fund investments in firms doing business in or with South Africa...
Wrong. The alcoholic personality is the result of alcoholism, not the cause. This is the most startling and original conclusion of a new landmark study, The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Patterns, and Paths to Recovery (Harvard University Press; $25), on the affliction that hits one American family in three. The author, Dr. George Vaillant, 48, a Harvard psychiatrist, is one of the most respected researchers in adult development. Vaillant tackles other key questions that specialists in the disorder have been debating for years: Can an alcoholic return to social drinking? Is there a genetic cause for the affliction...
Over the years, Porgy has generally been produced as a musical show with a truncated score, reduced orchestration and spoken dialogue. It was this adulterated version that became widely known; the landmark Houston production rightly restored both the cuts and the recitative, or sung dialogue, that Gershwin originally wrote. The latest incarnation, which opened last week in New York City's cavernous Radio City Music Hall, is an even grander version of the Houston Grand Opera staging: almost uncut, spectacularly designed and reasonably well sung by a large, rotating cast of principals...