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...Commencement--and Commencement speaker--par excellence; not just some warm, wise and witty words from the distinguished guest but a pronouncement on some momentous issue, a statement for our times. Stock in this idea rose significantly when, as Bok reminded Reagan, Marshall dropped his Plan on the steps of Mem Church (although no one noticed at the time, and it was not until months afterward that the huge relief effort for Europe was dated to June 1947). Solzhenitsyn's controversial depiction of the decline of the West in 1978 drew vast attention. Though the buildup for the speaker sometimes exceeds...
Various citizen organizations contend that the new lights would clash with the architecture along Mem Drive and would disrupt normal neighborhood life. Randall said, however, that some citizens support the proposal, saying updating the lights is long overdue...
Because the new lights would increase illumination along Mem Drive by more than ten times, their impact on the neighborhoods would be disastrous, David Dawley, chairman of an area condominium committee, said yesterday...
...carried him off, Armand thought back to the first Sunday of Freshman week, when an administrator had told the members of his class gathered in front of Mem Church that, as hard as they tried to avoid it, the admissions office made one mistake every year. Armand had laughed with everyone else, but privately he wondered if there weren't some truth in what the administrator said...
...flawed, she did have a vision - though it may have been ornamented by the hashish she smoked and the Oriental lore she claimed to have received from mysterious sources. She was living in India among Indians and praising their culture and religious ideas at a time when English mem-sahibs liked to boast of never having touched the hand of a native...