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...meeting yesterday of the Boston Landmarks Commission (BLC), which is considering granting the building landmark status and thereby preventing its destruction, Stanley M. Smith, manager of Historic Boston's revolving fund, said it is "quite probable" that the fund will lend MGH $100,000 of the estimated amount of $250,000 needed to move the building...
...should we worry about the problem of rhetoric overtaking reality? Isn't some concern better than none? Such a view is in the best democratic tradition, but if the issues don't lend themselves to the kind of misleading simplicity displayed last week, than a little knowledge, as we all know, becomes a dangerous thing. I see two chief dangers...
...known as the Great Persuader. In late September, with 61 Senators listed as opposing the sale, White House Chief of Staff James Baker and his Legislative Strategy Group took control of the lobbying effort from National Security Adviser Richard Allen. They decided that the issue did not lend itself to the type of televised presidential appeal that worked so well on the economic package. Instead, the Administration opted for one-on-one personal appeals to wavering Senators. The assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early October helped unsettle many of the sale opponents, and prompted immediate support from Republicans...
...quick look at the Fields of Concentration booklet seems to lend credence to this interpretation. Although History and Literature and Social Studies now have almost exactly the same number of concentrators, Social Studies has the equivalent of only 6.90 full-time teaching fellows while History...
Neither Slow Dance nore the December show, Purlie, is likely to lend itself to another CAST tradition, that of touring a production to Walpole Prison or elsewhere outside Harvard. But Alan Shotkin, producer of Slow Dance, hopes to increase the show's exposure by more traditional means, primarily by cramming eight or nine performances into the two-weekend run. Because so much devolves on each actor, matinees, but no midnight shows, are being contemplated. "You could kill people that way," Shotkin explains...