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...queer sense of emptiness takes over--a mild nausea of remembrance that seeps through daily routine. And of all the frustrations and traumas confronting you after leaving Harvard, that nausea, that emptiness spawned as the college community casts you out, is perhaps the toughest to deal with...
...factors have postponed doomsday at least one more year. They are 1) unseasonably mild weather over most of the nation during November and early December, and 2) a Federal Power Commission rule change last fall that permits interstate pipelines this winter to buy gas for shipment to industrial customers at the prices charged within the producing states rather than the unrealistically low ones formerly mandated on interstate shipments. The price of the unregulated intrastate gas ranges from...
Some of the sales gain-perhaps 1%-probably came about because this year there were 23 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or one day more than last year. During early December the weather was unseasonably mild in many parts of the country; that encouraged shopping expeditions, and even snows just before Christmas did not wipe out the benefit. Sales were also boosted by Sunday store openings in various cities-some of them, as in Warwick, R.I., amounting to mass disobedience of local "blue laws...
...ancient monastery of Deir el Makarios in the desert 50 miles southwest of Cairo, a Coptic monk is causing a mild sensation, drawing as many as 500 visitors a day. His name: Matta el Meskin, Matthew the Poor. Like the great anchorite St. Anthony, Matta el Meskin was once an affluent young man-a prosperous pharmacist. At the age of 29, heeding Jesus' call to "sell what you have," he disposed of his two houses, two cars, two pharmacies, gave the proceeds to the poor and, keeping only a cloak, devoted himself to prayer and asceticism...
...year old Buddy O'Neil immediately reminds fans of comic-book hero Clark Kent. Mild-mannered and unassuming, the bespectacled mentor has the "patience of a saint," according to one player. When the subject of his career comes up, O'Neil blushes and suggests that the conversation move onto a discussion of the players...