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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charlie M. Smith, a member of the Class of '59 pat it, "I had to take early retirement from IBM, and this isn't a bad place to look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

ROXANNE: THE PRIZE PULITZER (NBC, Oct. 16, 9 p.m. EDT). The sensational divorce trial is the jumping-off point for this TV-movie look at life-styles of the rich and salacious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...Boston, Historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) said the world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Metaphors of The World, Unite! | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...looked up at the scoreboard; Harvard was down by two touchdowns with less than two minutes to go. Hopes of a Harvard victory over Holy Cross had been dashed. As the clouds thickened over the Stadium, people began to file out. I took one last big gulp from my cup of Coca-Cola and prepared to leave. But as I stood up, something made me look down toward the sideline again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Art of `Rah, rah, rah' | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

...They were one of the very last unorganized groups left at the university and one of the very few left in state government," he said. "We look forward to this happening in other states and think it's a good sign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMass Professionals Unionize | 10/14/1989 | See Source »

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