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...shed his party's doctrinaire image, French Communist Chief Georges Marchais went so far as to state on TV recently that the dictatorship of the proletariat is an outworn notion-a shocking bit of revisionism that brought a sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow fades, they believe, the chances will grow for a leftist-coalition victory at the polls in 1978. Thus Revel...
...SICK LITTLE girl in a woman's body, Empress Phylissa doesn't know her powers. Drooling, a finger hooked over her lower lip, the beauty never guesses that her bedroom's an asylum. She makes you wrench, as do all the characters in The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre's The Menagerie of Empress Phylissa performed last week at the Loeb...
...freshmen, both the present ones and those of years to come. For the next one to three years, freshmen will be denied the right to express their House preferences. And all freshmen will henceforth live in dormitories, segregated from upperclasspeople--this in spite of CHUL's overwhelming vote of lip service to four-class House: they are the best arrangement "if financial considerations permit." But there is a plan which, at no expense, preserves and extends four-class Houses. Proposed independently by the Quad Committee and RUS, it affiliates all freshmen with Houses, and assigns Yard space to each House...
...harsh realities unveiled during the 'sixties are still with us, then, but going to Harvard means minimizing them with a stiff upper lip. We know there are warm spots in the water around us, but we are sailing over them on a self-important little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls...
...suppliers, foreign or domestic, are eager to sell to Bloomingdale's on an exclusive basis, if only for a limited time. "There is no better store to start marketing a French product than Bloomingdale's," declares Michel Garcin, president of Lip Time, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of the French watchmaker...