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...during his American tour in 1979, the other at UNESCO headquarters in Paris last year. "Humanity must make a moral about-face," the Pope said. "From now on it is only through a conscious choice . . . that humanity can survive." He warned against "technological development for its own sake" and "nonstop economic expansion" that leaves the poor behind...
...Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard are more potent rejuvenators than powdered rhino horn. Only Alyss knows...
...they perform. If he finds signs of developing nerves like a stiffening body or a tendency to move off the beat, he will mutter, "It's O.K." or "Better hurry up." Says Lavery: "I am struck by the way she can cover space and by her nonstop energy. She doesn't know when to rest...
...Nonstop innovation and a sales force that is among the best in the industry have kept Wang Laboratories expanding rapidly. The company has averaged a 75% annual growth in profits over the past five years, including an 82% increase in the fiscal year that ended June 30. In the quarter that ended Sept. 30, earnings were up 84% over the same period last year...
...Bing and his two fellow freshmen from the People's Republic of China, Harvard's first undergraduates from that country, the past two months have been full of such surprises--from adjusting to the "rich" food in the Union to coping with the nonstop "commercialism" of daily life...