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Leftist politics have pervaded the co-op's history. A letter from an alumnus unable to attend the reunion recalled that members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) were constantly trying to recruit co-op residents. John Crooks, master during the early '70s, said he had visited the co-op on the day of Walt Disney's death and found a celebration. Co-op residents explained that Disney had been a fascist. Today, practically every room has its own copy of the Village Voice...
...extraordinary publishing enterprises greet each other this month, just as their subjects did more than 80 years ago. The final entries in George Bernard Shaw's four-volume, 76-year-long correspondence present the master playwright bombinating into old age, dispensing unsolicited advice on every aspect of modern life from the flaws of the cinema to the indignities of sex. The first of a projected 20 volumes of Mark Twain's letters follows the literary apprentice -- at first still using his real name, Samuel Clemens -- as he flees Hannibal, Mo., to become a river pilot, then a journalist covering...
...about some Portuguese aristocrats. It proceeds at a gentle lull for an hour, then explodes in a delicious orgy of artificial limbs, charred torsos and a family feast of roast viscount. Like David Lean, Oliveira turns 80 this year. Like Luis Bunuel, he makes gaily macabre films -- an old master's last laugh at life and death...
Many young professionals have launched their own charitable groups. As women master the most advanced fund-raising techniques, they lose their patience with the labor-intensive traditions of club charity work. "Women's philanthropy is becoming much more sophisticated," says Los Angeles Businesswoman Patty DeDominic. "Why have twelve committee meetings to raise $4,000 when, with the right contacts and planning, you can have one event at someone's home and raise...
...friends and influence governments. But Moscow' s goal is still to stymie the U. S. -- A snap election in Denmark raises the question of whether NATO' s members can have a pick- and- choose defense. -- In France a victorious Mitterrand names a Socialist Cabinet. -- Kim Philby, British traitor and master spy, is dead...