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...departure of a top executive, even in the volatile news business, is normally a pleasant and courtly ritual marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile...
...disappointment in the past--and whom seemingly every-one else has lauded to the ends of the earth-creates something genuinely entertaining and even a bit enlightening. John Cheever's new novella. Oh What A Paradise It Seems, is a small package of this kind of eye-opening, pleasant strangeness. Perhaps because it rings more honest than many of his earlier efforts, the work pulses in a way much of Cheever's other work does not. Most important, Paradise given the palpable impression that Cheever has, like some literary athelete, raised the quality of his thinking and sensitivity...
...where people like you can still be put in jail," we detect more than a note of irony. And we wonder what it is that protects our precious rights, that puts gasoline in our tanks and food in our cupboards. To what extent do things that make our lives pleasant rely upon making others 'lives unpleasant? It is a question that we all, liberal and conservative alike, must answer
REAGANOMICS, the trouble in Poland, cutbacks in student aid, these coming due, a virus in Quincy House, Harvard's investment policies, John Belushi's death--the major topics of discussion around Harvard of late have been mostly depressing With this pervading atmosphere of bad news, how pleasant it is to note that one bright light has flooded the Harvard community, providing a release from the pressures of college life, and for four weeks now only good news...
Indeed it has. Historically, Italian bureaucrats have given special meaning to the old expression dolce far niente (it is pleasant to do nothing). Absenteeism was rampant, feigned illness a way of life. In many cases, civil servants who did show up for work arrived late and left early...