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...taken the House two years of acrimonious debate to bring the contentious question to heel. But when legislation proposed by an unusual blue-ribbon panel to save the financially troubled Social Security system finally reached the floor last week, the vast package barreled through to bipartisan approval, 282 to 148. Passage of the bill, said Minority Leader Robert H. Michel, was "born of necessity and ripened of bipartisan deliberation...
...August 1981, the White House chose Gardner to head the President's National Commission on Excellence in Education, an 18-member, blue-ribbon group that is studying ways of bolstering the nation's educational system. The commission's final report is due next month. "It will be hard-hitting," Gardner promises...
...playwright, Williams had the minor defects of his major virtues. He sometimes ran a purple ribbon through his typewriter and gushed where he should have dammed. Occasionally, his characters were too busy striking attitudes to hit honest veins of emotion. His symbols sometimes multiplied like fruit flies and almost as mindlessly. His chief danger was the unhealthy narcissism of most modern art, whose tendency has been to gaze inward and contemplate the artist's ego, as well as his navel, to the point of myopia and hallucination. Almost inevitably, he suffered the attrition of dramatic power that afflicts most...
There may be an "our song" for a cause (We Shall Overcome), for a college ("Bulldog, bulldog, bow wow wow, Eli Yale!"), for a specific event, like the release of the hostages (Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree), and even for an era (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?). Nations have them. But The Star-Spangled Banner has never quite become "our song" in the way that the Marseillaise utterly and unquestionably belongs to the French. Politicians have their "our songs." John Kennedy may have thought of his Administration in terms of the words and music...
...from the Javanese city of Jogjakarta, Borobudur is eventually expected to attract several million visitors a year. At this week's ceremony, Indonesian officials, as well as representatives of UNESCO and 28 contributing na tions and corporations, will gather at the temple for the local equivalent of a ribbon cutting. Even if the donors do not achieve nirvana as they climb Borobudur's refurbished steps, they can take pride in setting an example for all the world to emulate in the care of a noble relic of the distant past. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Sandra Burton/Jogjakarta