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...with windows overlooking the soul on one side and the world on the other. Often discovering darkened halls in the light of day. Channing loses himself in his own house. With neither firmly entrenched transcendental beliefs nor a classical sensibility, the Newport-born preacher appears to live under a roof at once dilapidated and unfinished...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: The Liberal Imagination | 4/8/1981 | See Source »

...room, staffers ran for safety with practiced speed. No wonder. It was the fourth attack on the building in the past month. Once again, no one was injured; once again, the raiders got away, despite return fire from the Salvadoran security guard and a lone U.S. Marine on the roof. The conference room, newly repaired after a previous RPG attack, had its ceiling demolished and its windows blown out. The ambassador's office next door still had sheets of protective blanketing over the windows since an attack two weeks ago left bullet holes in the glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Armor for All | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

Richard J. Ramsden, vice-president in charge of administration and finance at Brown, said that "although student need is going through the roof," the aid cutbacks would not force students out of Brown. "It won't be pleasant for the students," he added...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Brown Cuts Back Financial Aid Packages | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...seems there is an obligation to lower rents or prevent future increases when an abatement is given, but in fairness to the landlords, utility costs have gone through the roof." Kevin T. McDevitt, principle assessor for the city of Cambridge, said yesterday. "Taxes landlords must pay have also gone up a great deal, despite the abatements," he added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Real Estate Agency Denies Charges of High Rent, Poor Housing | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

...America sizzled in his brainpan, and in Get Happy!! Elvis thrust his middle finger up her dumb whore B-Movie hole, the music as hyper-energized, as fractious and scrappy as the country itself. It was a smashing, reverberating disc that some of us thought would go through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn't about arrested development? Of course the songs on Get Happy!! didn't "breathe"--they were choked with carbon monoxide and tears...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Something of a Middlebrow | 4/2/1981 | See Source »

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