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During Commencement week, staffers of Harvard's purchasing office do not spend much time conjuring up visions of sentimental alumni strolling through the Yard reminiscing about freshman year. For them, the week's events consist of securing such items as 50,000 folding chairs for Commencement and luncheons and 18...

Author: By Kelly S. Goode, | Title: 17,000 Bedsheets and 18,000 Towels | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Considering his box office strength, one would think that Pryor could command the creation of vehicles to match his gift. Or perhaps he likes being the best thing about a picture, since he functioned as his own producer on Bustin' Loose, and it is, if anything, more inept -certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cooling Out | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

For all their current popularity and lubricity, novel-romances are old, old stories. They began flooding the market in England during the last decades of the 18th century; they were part of the tide that engulfed the certainties of the Enlightenment. Unlike the newly invented gothic tale, which stressed the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feelings | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

At least one good girl was not ruined by these books, although she must have read a lot of them to mock so well. Before her 15th birthday in 1790, Jane Austen had written Love and Freindship, erratic spellings and all, into a notebook. There it remained until after her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feelings | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

BUT CYPRIAN, FELICITAS LATER NOTES, "trained me too well, trained me against the sentimental, the susceptibility of the heart." In Part II, a 20-year-old Felicitas has rejected the cold love of the spirit as a student at Barnard living out a later 1960s stereotype. She resides in an...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Saints and Sinners | 4/4/1981 | See Source »

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