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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trilling believes in the old rules: the manner and social graces that went out with parietals and dress codes. When Harvard men moved to the Quad, students forgot the rules. The word manners became a buzzword for "elitist" and style was for snobs. The result? Loneliness...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: Merger Without Manners | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...this special committee each inadvertently reveal pairs of panties pulled from back pockets and briefcases, you start wondering what has happened to Stoppard's proverbial cleverness. In Jumpers he used stage acrobatics to poke fun at and illuminate complicated philosophical questions; here he finds no better use for age-old sight gags than to keep his audience interested between long recitations of names of English inns...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Prematurely Gray | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

With "The Lady's a Tramp," "Whiskey Time," and the old favorite, "I've Got You Under My Skin," the gray-haired Sinatra electrified the nostalgic crowd...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Sinatra, Martin Perform For Reagan | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

Andy M. Brown '79 died Wednesday of injuries suffered in a fall from a cliff while touring Sri Lanka on a Sheldon Fellowship. He was 22 years old...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sheldon Fellow Touring Asia Killed in Fall | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...year-old representative attributes her success at avoiding arrest or exile to the "moral immunity" that comes with being an elected member of Parliament. She adds that supporters of apartheid have called her the "choice of everything that is unpatriotic and anti-South African." She comments: "I get hell in Parliament, but then I expect it...I'm very provocative...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Students' Protests Surprise Suzman | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

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