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...virtues in these plays, and New-Found-Land, especially, gleams with the special verbal artisanship that is Stoppard's genius. But there are so many better plays by this author that are as easily staged and as fully gratifying that Winthrop House's production seems like an act of needless mercy towards a play that deserves euthanasia...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Hung in Public | 11/20/1980 | See Source »

...Needless to say, I hold no interest in Ford. Nor do I write on behalf of my newspaper, but as an individual with a strong concern for South Africa's future. J.F. Burns GSAS

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ford In Africa | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...Letty's "overactive metabolism." Says he: "She never accepted efficiency as a means of allocating responsibility. I could never say she should do the dishes because she did them better." Replies Letty: "But he never thought he was entitled to special privileges because he was a man." Needless to say, both score very high on questions about grapefruit knives and mortgage payments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Doing Away with Sex Stereotypes | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...Needless to say, it's the same old story," he said. "I don't understand why we're not allowed to get better service--either you use HDNS or you don't get a paper, and that's unfair," he added. Smith said he "has not thought about" a refund policy for this year...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: HDNS Blames Problems on N.Y. Times | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

Much of what is wrong with Cambridge is not the city's fault--Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, must make conscious decisions to end their needless expansion into residential neighborhoods. There are other problems the city will have to face--maintaining a diverse city in the face of rising costs and increasing gentrification, or allowing economic development without sacrificing the high quality of life. But Cambridge deserves a celebration this weekend. It has come much further than most American cities, and it has the resources and the pride to go much further still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Birthday, Cambridge | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

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