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...many another newborn nation, the Kingdom of Morocco has sadly discovered that independence provides a brief, heady celebration but cures no chronic ailments. Two years after Morocco gained its freedom, its economic and political problems have piled so high that King Mohammed V was prompted only last month to remind his people: "It is not going to rain gold and silver. The seeds of independence will not yield their fruit in a day. Our sons and grandsons will pick them." Less poetically, the King confided to a friend: "The French never gave me half as much trouble...
...undergraduates below the age of reason recall the glorious four-sided clock of golden arms that once perched atop Memorial Hall. Destroyed in a fire over two years ago, only a faint echo of its booming voice is heard to remind Harvard of a time when men of high degree and low measured their affairs by its authority...
...that was in the more orderly past, when undergraduates, rushing without direction in their uncertain world, at least had The Time to remind them to hurry up, or slow down, or go back to bed, for it was too late anyway...
...patriotic (and profitable) alternative to packing British subdebs off to Paris to learn the graces. Ever since, socialites have installed their daughters at Mrs. O'Mahony's small Queen's Gate town house, whose front hall contains a collection of white china swans "to remind the girls of what they are expected to become." Their guiding light: "That our daughters may be as cornerstones, polished after the similitude of a palace" (Psalms 144:12). For such polish, Mrs. O'Mahony's fee is an abrasive $1,325 a year. Hundreds apply, but only...
...women with a reasonable amount of quiet. Yes, and there are those tender moments when we wish we could forget about time. We have alarm clocks, wall clocks, wrist watches, even a ship's clock in one lucky room, hunger pangs, and the sun (on those rare days) to remind us of mortality. In addition, Mem Church chimes approximately 325 happy times during a weekday, the Lowell House bells ring spasmodically, and there is the sun-dial in back of Lamont. You may not have known about the sun-dial, because, like all of the time reminders owned and operated...