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Raisa Gorbachev made almost as big a hit in London as her husband. A former student of philosophy at Moscow State University, the chic and slender Mrs. Gorbachev showed up at one reception wearing a white satin evening dress and a pair of gold lame sandals. Photographers were so captivated by her that they presented her with a bouquet when she left. Mrs. Gorbachev and her future husband met as students in the 1950s. Their daughter, who is believed to be in her late 20s, and son-in-law reportedly are both doctors...
Blair, a second team ALL-ECAC selection, faced just four shots in an incredibly easy first period. Then came the second stanza, when Harvard seemed bent on squandering its slender 1-0 lead...
...calculated wispiness of Hardy's question reflects the unorthodox religiosity of the slender, unflappable scientist. Hardy says, "My heart is in the Church of England, but not my mind." He insists: "I do not think there can be any future for orthodox Christian beliefs." However, he thinks human spirituality has a great future. There is, of course, considerable skepticism about whether spiritual experiences can be studied at all with any degree of success. The late Philip Toynbee, a writer and critic and son of Historian Arnold Toynbee, wrote that Hardy's quest was the equivalent of "trying to catch...
...afternoon from the dining room in the Castle Harbor hotel (references required) among people who conceivably could have been dressed for the raj. One of the blonder and fairer of us attracted the glance of a Italian in a dark linen suit, who was taking effete puffs from a slender cigarette, sending a halo of smoke around his coiffed head. Actually, he was only a hotel official on break, but he handed us some nightclub passes, which was all that really mattered...
...schoolmates shared the happy thought that "I wouldn't work but I'd get paid just the same . . . I'd also like to have lots of different things, dresses for every day of the week, to have good jeans and lots of other things. Because clothes make a person slender and more beautiful." She concluded, "In general I'd like to live better than the others." Perhaps the most distant from New Soviet Man were two boys, one of whom noted, "A rich man knows a great deal, can do a lot and has everything: car, flat and country house...