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...spent his days gaping at sights and groveling for favor from potential wealthy patrons, and his evenings copulating beneath London Bridge or lying in bed suffering the ravages of venereal disease. But, as Brady strives to make clear, Boswell's rapacious libido represented only a portion of the make-up of a man whose life also included a vibrant spectrum of people, events, pressures, pleasures and misfortunes...

Author: By Nicholas T. Dawidoff, | Title: Biographer Biographied | 11/19/1984 | See Source »

Rosenwald said HSA fits this criterion because students make-up one-third of its board of directors, while Harvard faculty and staff constitute another third. In addition. HSA's non-student employees are technically employees of the University...

Author: By Jonathon M. Moses, | Title: IRS Exempts HSA Workers; Nixes Social Security Taxes | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...only appropriate that Murray has endeavored upon his first "dramatic performance" the same year that Bozo the Clown is running for President. Both reside in the comic file of our memory, and Murray's blank face and Bozo's five-hour make-up job make us think we will get a few laughs. We get a few. His girlfriend demanding they talk, Murray jumps up on to the pool deck, wags himself about, saying. "Let's talk; let's talk seal talk." Bozo says he's as serious as a heart attack, and at some point you get the feeling...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: Big Mouth Finds the Meaning of Life | 10/27/1984 | See Source »

Though Democrats hold a vast majority of seats in the legislature, the ideological make-up is strongly centrist. Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and House Speaker Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn) are considered centrist, if not non-ideological, and liberals like Sen. George Bachrach (D-Watertown) and Sen. Jack H. Backman (D-Brookline) have little influence on policy matters...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Why the Democrats Rule the State | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...some ways, charges of old-boyism do seem borne out by the make-up of the group: three members of the 1945 class of Harvard College, two Harvard Business School graduates, and four graduates of elite New England prep schools like Exeter, Milton, St. Mark's and Browne and Nichols...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Silent Partners | 6/6/1984 | See Source »

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