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...multiplicity of interests ... Today enough people have met Mrs. Roosevelt, talked with her ... checked up on her, to accept her for what she is: the prodigious niece of prodigious, ubiquitous, omnivorous Roosevelt I. Everything she says, everything she does, is genuinely and transparently motivated. Sophisticates who used to scoff now listen to her. They read with measurable respect her books, magazine articles, daily column." --April...
...Virginia. Next they showed the tape to a "dial group'' of 30 Republicans -- some committed to Dole, some not -- in Cobb County, Georgia. Each was given a hand-held dial to register his or her approval of key passages; all voted 80% approval or more. Officials at other campaigns scoff at the front runner's overcalibration, but the careful market testing has helped Dole move away from talking about process and toward more presidential-sounding themes...
...minor difficulties, mental, dental and love-related, make the front page of Vogue magazine. At Oxford University, (where every other boy has a leather jacket and a pocket Wittgenstein, where every other haircut resemble's Bono's on the 1983 cover of the "War" album, and everyone pretends to scoff at success) Amis is a normal topic of discussion. I couldn't find a single person at Harvard who had even heard...
PRINT AND TV JOURNALISM DON'T usually mix well. Print journalists snipe that TV is shallow and addicted to sizzle, while TV journalists scoff that print is slow and ponderous. Here at Time Inc., however, detente has been declared, thanks largely to Joe Quinlan and George Kindel, executive producer and senior producer of The News Exchange, the company's TV-production unit. Our most recent peace dividend can be seen on April 5, when the Discovery Channel will air CyberSpace, a one-hour special filmed in collaboration with the TIME journalists who prepared the cyberspace issue published in mid-March...
There are naked people at Harvard and they're not just posing for a figuredrawing class. "Oh, "you may scoff, "I haven't seen all that many of my classmates naked" (or "nekkid" if you're from the South). All I can say is, they may not show up in the buff to the Omelet Station at Special Dinners, but there are nudists among us and their name is Legion...