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...make everything right, and begin to take advantage of Radcliffe's accessibility and its not inconsiderable resources. The Radcliffe administration, in turn, will have to gain the students' confidence by taking stands on their behalf. With some solidarity, Radcliffe could give pompous old Harvard what it needs--a good pinch in the ass. And 50 years and a few more million dollars from now, perhaps it can begin to assume what all women in this University would so dearly love to see--a partnership on equal terms...

Author: By Susanna Rodell, | Title: A Hundred Years of Solitude | 1/3/1979 | See Source »

Winthrop House will also receive new blood in the form of new co-masters James A. and Martha J. Davis. The Davises say they accepted the job because they miss having children around the house. The couple will be in training this spring for their new position by pinch-hitting for David and Patricia Herlihy, co-masters of Mather House, who will be taking a sabbatical in Italy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Passing | 12/15/1978 | See Source »

...self-enhancement, self-assertion, and self-treatment. Equipment to facilitate what used to be called self-abuse, and literature encouraging its practice is also offered, along with energy pyramids, jogging shoes, biofeedback machines and ionizers, lore on herbology, kinesiology, esoteric breathing techniques, and organic sprouts from an outfit called Pinch of Love in Athens, Me. Mountains of books, too, by the star speakers and other luminaries. Sample titles: Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology, Rebirthing in the New Age. Here, in a continual flea-market atmosphere peopled by folks who say "head" when they mean "mind" and "I feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Much Ado About It | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...always in agriculture, a diverse industry, one farmer's good fortune may result from another's pinch. An agricultural-loan specialist for California's Bank of America asserts: "You'd have to be pretty incompetent not to make money in cattle this year." Reason: a combination of high prices for meat and relatively low costs for corn and other feeds that has corn growers grumbling. Vegetable growers in central Florida are selling big crops of lettuce at prices that have been pushed abnormally high by the winter-spring rains that made California lettuce scarce and unappetizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New American Farmer | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of GSAS said last night that outside financing for graduate students reached its peak in 1968 and has been declining ever since. Non-science fields feel the financial pinch most strongly. The English department, for example, relies almost entirely on the GSAS for its fellowship funds...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Rosovsky Predicts A Budget Surplus | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

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