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Died. Alice Paul, 92, longtime crusader for women's rights and shaper of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution; in Moorestown, N.J. After successfully lobbying for the adoption of the Woman Suffrage Amendment-she was thrown into jail in 1917 for leading a parade of bloomer-clad suffragists in front of the White House-Paul in 1923 helped draft a prototype of the current Equal Rights Amendment and spent more than 50 years pressing for its ratification...
...need to believe, the resistance to cynicism, even if that sometimes means oversimplification and moralizing. One loves the unique American restlessness, the refusal to settle for what is, even if that sometimes means a lack of contemplation and peace. One loves the fact that America sees itself as the shaper of its own destiny, both private and public. While psychology, sociology and determinist historical theories have become massively fashionable, there is still a strong strain of resistance to the notion that man is formed by environment, by outside powers, or that the nation is in the grip of immutable forces...
...shaper of the flippant, disenchanted '20s, Coward was wary of the deeper emotions, guardedly dispassionate, compulsively irreverent. He turned the era's alienated mood into a frenetic jazz beat of syncopated escapism. The message: Live for the moment, dance your troubles away, play madder music, drink stronger wine...
...Royal Assent to the treaty specifying the terms of British entry into the enlarged EEC-along with Denmark and Ireland-on Jan. 1. As Prime Minister Heath had put it: "In this new partnership we have a chance as a great people, as a formidable nation, as a shaper and molder of the modern world, to get back into action...
Like Harvard and Money, issued by the University Governance Committee, the report of the Austin Committee recommends an examination of the powers of the Treasurer, the major individual shaper of University investment policy...