Word: path
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...Dapper's path is easy to follow. As a ten-year campaign stalwart for former Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, O'Neil was rewarded in the mid-'60's with a position on the three-member Boston Liquor Licensing Commission. Later, he became its chairman. During his tenure on the commission, O'Neil got into a feud with a newspaper editor whose paper had slandered Dapper on several occasions. The editor was allegedly having an affair with a Chinese woman, and the politician drove around the paper's building shouting through a megaphone "...likes Chinese food, he eats Chinese every chance...
...specter is a somber one: of frightened individuals preparing for a racial Armageddon. In Rhodesia, no group has been more willful and less realistic than the whites, who refused throughout the 1960s to consider the alternative path of an orderly transition to majority rule. It is good for them, for the Rhodesian blacks, and for just about everybody else that the wrongheaded rebellion is at an end, and the financial "safety net" will certainly ease the blow. Yet, as members of Kissinger's flying squad of negotiators acknowledged, there was something poignant about the way Smith finally bowed...
...this great nation is tied to the future of humanity within a framework of interdependence. The alternative is to let economic forces follow their course toward the concentration of the world's wealth in a few industrial centers, while the vast majority of peoples, far from following a path toward development, begin a process of involution...
...anxious to get off the beaten path, you should be following the Harvard Premiere Society--that's its specialty. The Premiere Society was originally founded as a vehicle for the talented Philip LaZebnik '76, who was having trouble getting his new musical Mad About Mintz produced by Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid. Under the society's auspices, Mintz finally made it onto the Agassiz stage, and the rest is Harvard theater history. Last year the Premiere Society sponsored what turned out to be the hottest show in town: Do It Yourself, a collage of skits and songs written by Harvard students...