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...interests, often on the basis of specific grants. Professional programs such as the KSG conduct advanced technical training for the future leaders of politics and finance. Harvard educates and socializes its undergraduates to take their place in the ruling class, inculcating them with establishment values and laying out a life-long program of privilege, powet and skills, if only they are willing to take that place...
...that appeared exactly 102 years ago last Friday hailing Thayer's invention: "The new mask was proved a complete success, since it entirely protects the face and head and adds greatly to the confidence of the catcher, who need not feel that he is every moment in danger of life-long injury. To the ingenious inventor of this mask we are largely indebted for the excellent playing of our new catcher, who promises to excel the fine playing of those who have previously held this position...
...comes the English, "marquee," which applies to movies--I was forced to take a sojourn along the Ohio, and I was struck by how true-to-life the scenes in the steel mills are. Those people, though, do not sound like steel workers--they sound like transplanted New Yorkers, and they keep trying to work up a "rapport," you know? A rapport with each other to make us think they're life-long buddies. A rhythm very influenced by Mean Streets. Bogus. DeNiro, though, is marvelous--that studied inarticulateness. DeNiro's got all the equipment to be a great stage...
Even by Chinese standards, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing is small in stature (4 ft. 11 in.). Psychologists might argue that his size explains in part Teng's life-long reputation for feistiness, irascibility and driving ambition. He is a highly emotional man, with a reputation for vengefulness. Teng is respected rather than loved by the Chinese, and appears to have cronies and allies rather than friends. For all that, he is China's great survivor; at 74 he has embarked with unflagging energy on the most intrepid political adventure of his life...
...Everything comes from Rockefeller's private collection-one of the most celebrated, public or private, in America. But everything is imitation. The Modigliani you can have for only $550 is just a glossy photograph. All the sculptures and ceramics are copies. Rocky still has the originals. "As life-long collectors of art ourselves," he writes in a "Dear Friend" preface to the catalogue, "Happy and I decided to share with others our joy of living with these beautiful objects and the thrills we have experienced collecting them." But it's frankly a business proposition: we share...