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Because the book is so thoughtfully arranged, busy Harvard can skip the extraneous material and move on to the meatier manners. Birth announcements, communions, marriage (for beginners), marriage II, and even celebrity and publicity get tucked away for after Commencement. "Introductions" seems like a good place to start. How do you introduce the girl that has been living in your suite with a roommate to your parents on a surprise visit? By her name, writes Miss Manners. Simple enough...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: Behaving | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Harvard Thick and Thin | 8/13/1982 | See Source »

...want him asking for bail," Fagan persisted. "I'd rather go back to the cells." Detective Chief Superintendent Trevor Lloyd-Hughes agreed, warning that Fagan might skip trial, commit other crimes or hurt himself. "His present state of mind is such that his movements and actions are totally unpredictable," the policeman said. "He has serious personal problems and has suicidal tendencies. He has twice tried to slash his wrists, and the marks are still to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buckingham Follies, Act II | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

IOWA. Democrats were almost as stunned as Republicans when coolly competent Robert Ray, 53, the nation's senior Governor in years of continuous service (14), announced in February that he would skip a solid shot at a sixth term. "I am at a time in my life," said Ray, "when I might like to try new things." Conceded Timothy Hyde, executive director of Iowa's Republican Party: "Now there is a race, and there wasn't before." State Attorney General Tom Miller, a Democrat, agrees: "There is no Republican now who could win the kind of victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Times in a Soft Underbelly | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...evade this issue. Art is pattern and design, after all, not morality. Or, on another front: a writer must use material, however unpleasant, not weep over or try to correct it. Fine. But those who feel claustrophobic in the presence of smug, self-deluded solipsism may also decide to skip the whole experience. Barth has often been a pleasant guide through the states of his mind; Susan and Fenwick, his alter egos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conceits | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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