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Reston the reporter had been nurtured on war. As a mainstay in the London bureau during World War II, he learned daily that war reporters write for the censors. Wartime censorship made sense to Reston; he often has said that reporters must not delve into areas in a way that might threaten the country's safety. The lessons learned by Reston the war reporter helped form the values of Reston the columnist. Referring to Vietnam in his 1965 lecture, he said, "It is clear in this time of half-war and half-peace that the old principle of publish...
Swallowed, the mainstay of these listings for the last month or so, has been temporarily cancelled because of technical problems. A frog in its throat, maybe...
Apparently alarmed by the enthusiastic response given three visiting orchestras from the West last year, the London Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Peking has launched an attack on the decadent composers who are the mainstay of the classical repertory. Beethoven, said the newspaper, was a "German capitalist," while Schubert's gloom resulted from his oppression by Austria's feudal rulers. If he had been a good Marxist, Schubert would of course have finished the "Unfinished" Symphony. Mozart is scarcely worth considering. Nothing he ever wrote compares with The White-Haired Girl, the propaganda-laden Chinese...
...from last fall, and nearly one in every five Harvard undergrads is taking it. The Harvard campus is not alone. At Columbia and Barnard, at Atlanta's black Morehouse College and the patrician University of Virginia, at universities all across the U.S., that once-dismal mainstay economics is suddenly the course to take...
With his shuffling gait, slurred speech and foggy memory, the punch-drunk boxer is a stock character in movies and fiction, a mainstay of many a stand-up comic's nightclub routines. But there is nothing funny about the condition some doctors call "dementia pugilistica." Doctors have known for years that a hard blow to the head can slam the jelly-like brain against the rigid skull and cause permanent damage. Now a trio of British researchers has documented just how serious-and how widespread among boxers-this damage is likely to be. In a study published last month...