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...Middlebury humanities professor who has directed the program since 1965. "So we went looking in rural America for potential educational leaders." Foundation funds were raised to help defray the $2,500 cost for tuition and board. Over the past ten years nearly 500 rural instructors have studied in the shadow of the distinctly flattened mountain that gives the school its name. This summer 73 came to Bread Loaf from small towns in 32 states...
Much has been made of George Higgins' gift of gab and nose for original sin. Much should be made. Since The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), the lawyer- novelist has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is more than a prolific genre writer about Boston's hoods and pols. His 13 novels have moved steadily beyond a cynical cop's-eye view toward a harsh realism that is informed by experience, reflection and cauterizing...
Such was the picture that emerged from a meeting last month of TIME's European Board of Economists, held at Interlaken, in the shadow of the Swiss Alps. If all goes well, the economists said, Europe's five-year-old expansion could last at least through 1988 and the average growth rate of the major nations could be maintained in the current 2.5% range. TIME's board acknowledged, though, that dangers are looming and that pessimism is on the rise in Europe. Said Board Member Hans Mast, senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank: "In today...
...Griffith and Davis to amass suitable songs for the album. Even after elaborate showcases in New York and Los Angeles, many producers turned down the chance to work with her. Finally the songwriter-producer Kashif offered to produce You Give Good Love. Jermaine Jackson, who had emerged from the shadow of Brother Michael, produced three songs. Walden came in to revise and then produce How Will I Know. And Michael Masser covered the pop side of the tracks, producing four of his own compositions, including Saving All My Love and Greatest Love. Says Davis: "Our main criterion in picking each...
...other needs of that kind are most acute in countries that can least afford to supply them, however handsomely a constitution is composed. Besides, countries like Liberia and Nigeria may cherish the most articulate aspirations, but as T.S. Eliot wrote, "between the idea and the reality . . . falls the shadow." The reality may be one of coups, civil wars and misery...