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With temperatures in Cambridge just right for a bikini-scene with Charlie's penguins, this weekend provided the perfect opportunity to ignore Horace Greely's sage advice and instead take a tip from upstart John Belushi--Roadtrip...
...biggest selling alcoholic beverages yesterday were champagne and white wine, a liquor salesman at Sage's Market said yesterday. "American girls can't handle red wine, even if it is Valentine's Day," he said...
...Sage and seer though he was, Shakespeare could not have guessed at the prophetic accuracy of his own lines or have foreseen that in 1979 they would be spoken in the accents of Manhattan's black and Spanish Harlem. As always, genius defies augury...
THIS FALL KING JIMMY chose Alfred Kahn, a curious cross between the court jester and the court sage, to serve as chairman of his Council on Wage and Price Stability and Adviser to the President. Thus far Kahn has engaged in witty wordplay with his inimitable foe--inflation--and found it doesn't succumb to his funnies as readily as his other, more human audiences. Since the Vietnam war inflation has gained an increasingly prominent position on the roster of the nation's problems--the Consumer Price Index indicates that prices have doubled in the past eleven years. And unless...
Safire is too light-footed to write like that. On his fifth anniversary as a columnist last April, he wrote that he avoids "evenhanded analyses, sage soul searchings or detached observations. I am in the business of writing informed polemics ... with a satisfying zap, so as to affect people in power and their policy in formation. In 1973 1 was hopelessly defensive; now I am happily aggressive...