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...their colleagues for excitement during a summertime news lull and one of the less attractive residuals of Watergate afflicting too much of the press: the fear of underplaying-and being beaten on-a scandal. The decisiveness of Reagan's election victory made the possession of a debate crib sheet seem irrelevant to the outcome. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill about Carter: "We had an extremely unpopular candidate who would have lost, debate or no debate, briefing book or no briefing book...
...rather than brusque changes. The "drawing"-in fact stitching, run on the sewing machine in brisk swoops and zigzag flurries of contrasting thread-looks both improvised and exact, like a well-blown line in jazz. The paper shapes themselves start as regular forms: spoked wheels, geometric grids, or a sheet perforated with spaced holes. Most of them are spares, leftovers from earlier "multiple" projects. But because there is so much small-scale chance involved in the casting and drying, they come out lace-winged and irregular; and Shields compounds their variations, sometimes with breathtaking elegance...
Chairman of the History Department John Womack Jr. '59, said that he and three other professors circulated a letter among Faculty members in early June, informing them of the negotiations, providing a fact sheet, and asking them to sign a statement of support...
Called on by the teacher, the President recited Shakespeare to a summer-school class in Farragut, Tenn. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," he read from a crib sheet, "signifying nothing." It was all part of Ronald Reagan's continuing crusade for stricter standards in the nation's schools, on a swing through Tennessee and New Mexico last week. In turn, his prospective Democratic rivals for the presidency charged that his speeches were mere sound and fury. "Everywhere he goes he's now a friend of education," scoffed Walter Mondale...
THAT HARVARD cares more about its balance sheet then its consciences becomes clear in other, smaller ways throughout any student's career have. A coalition of Third World and women's groups found themselves in confrontation with the Freshmen's Dean's Office (FDO) this month when the FDO refused the list their organizations' orientation events on the official Freshmen Week calendar, FDO officials argued that the events were "separatist" but the students--who rallied outside the office for several days--pointed out convincingly that Harvard's cares to make them feel at home only when it is immediately useful...