Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M NOT VERY USED to things happening rapidly," chirps convent-bred Alizon Eliot in Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. The current Dunster House production of the existential comedy-drama should give her little reason to fret. In three acts spanning almost as many hours, the cast of this show prattles prosaically but interminably about whether it is more significant to hang, burn or continue with the business of living in the dreary Middle Ages. By the end of it all, the resolution of these and other conflicts in the plot seems less important than the necessity...
...Everyone knows there are faculty with contractual relationships with the CIA for purposes of research," Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., professor of Government and director of the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, said yesterday...
...meeting next door. Andrew Power, the delegate from Kenya and the Dalton School of New York City, says he is having a pretty good time "but I'm trying to win" the award for best delegate in his committee. Power loosens his navy tie and rumples his white shirt some more. "Right now," he says, motioning at the pile of debris which surrounds his chair, "you have to sweat it out, but if you win, that's the fun part...
LAST WEEK the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club invited former President Richard M. Nixon to speak here next spring. Nixon, of course, has not made an appearance at an American college since his resignation under heavy fire in 1974. Since then he has mostly stayed within the confires of his San Clemente retreat, but in recent months he has shown signs of a re-emergence into public, if not political, life that is most distressing. Starting with his appearance in Hydin, Ky. this summer and extending to his current European tour, Nixon has demonstrated his pathetic need...
People started paying the junior Phi Beta Kappa key-winner to tutor their children. "It was pretty primitive compared to what I'm doing now," Kaplan said recently during an interview. "Forty years ago there were no standardized tests. The big thing was grade-point average, so I tutored in the three R's." Kaplan's engaging whiz-kid personality rubbed off on his clients--his reputation grew to the point where he was tutoring 200 students on a one-to-one basis...