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...provided a unique alternative to a "godless" Marxist regime. Going to Mass became not only a religious act but a quiet sign of rebellion against the state. Today, 75% to 80% of Poland's 36 million people are practicing Catholics. A deeply religious man, Walesa always wears on his lapel a badge depicting the so-called Black Madonna, a portrait of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child that is in the Czestochowa monastery, 125 miles southwest of Warsaw...
...Capture, part of a book on collecting policy issued by the Met six years ago. Stretched to this length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses, works of art, asking prices and responsibilities are "awesome." The only sound...
...buzz word for Abt and Wilkes supporters seems to be "flexibility." "We want to send a message to the CCA," says John Hudson, chairman of the Cambridge Condominium Network Steering Committee, who sports a Wilkes button on his lapel. The message, he adds, is that the CCA has been "inflexible" on housing issues. And as Abt wrote in her statement to tenants, "without better data, it is irresponsible to dismiss alternatives and to insist on Rent Control and condo controls in exactly their current forms...
Bernie Krieger gesticulating madly at the piano during the Yale game in '55. Bernie Krieger calmly eating the carnation off the lapel of a fellow Glee Clubber in San Antonio during the Club's U.S. tour. Bernie Krieger stumbling into a ladies room in Omaha and crying out, "It's all right--I'm a doctor!" This is the Krieger of Harvard legend. And if you haven't heard one of these stories, he will gladly fill you in on the details. "The best person on Bernie Krieger is Bernie Krieger," says Archie C. Epps, III, dean of students...
...DEPTH--and the myriad valid justifications--suggests that surmounting the bitterness will be hard, much harder than stretching out some mythical, folksinger hand of brotherhood, much harder than pinning a green ribbon on the lapel, much harder than announcing that you will begin to consider Blacks for faculty positions--even with the best intentions. "We are, by reason of the lives we have led, a suspicious people. We are the children of suspicious people, as were our grandparents and their grandparents. This has been so with us even back to those people most of call foreparents. Now, if we think...