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...more comfortable? Harvard can also take steps to attract even better junior faculty in the first place. Such a move would help to raise the low number of internal promotions that survive Harvard's tenure process--a process that has been described as tantamount to the canonization of a saint...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dear Mr. Spence | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...reached a point that is difficult to justify and invites the suspicion that there is too much incentive to do a deal. Fees are sometimes ten times as large when a deal closes as when it doesn't, so you'd almost have to be a saint not to be affected by the numbers involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Superstars of Merger | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

...seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they want the newly refined chic of Montana, played down and spiffed up like cotillion costumes for postpunk debs? Or the electric, eclectic, aggressively youthful chic of Jean-Paul Gaultier? Or the Olympian chic of Saint Laurent? And-oh, yes. Is Fort Worth really ready for Versace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...definitive long coats and shorter sexy skirts; his loose, liquid, wool jumpsuits; his jackets with turned-down lapels; his heart-stopping evening wear... heaven on a hanger! Claude Montana's huge coats in electroshock colors; Yohji Yamamoto's sweaters in colors like a deep-sea bottom! Saint Laurent's peerless pants! It is easy enough, in the midst of all this, for any buyer to go nicely nuts. "This is it! This is the end!" said Krull, leaping to her feet at the sight of a black silk jersey, beaded Lagerfeld number. When Ruttenstein inquired just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Fall Fashions: Buying the Line | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...University, conducted in Sanders Theatre, consisted of 15-minute lectures intended to convey the flavor of medieval academic life. Typical lectures explained the process of canonization (the making of a saint) or exposed the "heresies" of Galileo...

Author: By Jonathan N. Brachman, | Title: Medieval Festival in Mem Hall Draws Middle Ages Enthusiasts | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

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