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...have lost sight of the prize--divestment--and instead have been mesmerized by the University's picayune bureaucratic processes. The Committee on University Practices--a little activist group which proudly calls itself "Coup" much the same way Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt labelled himself "important"--displays this misguidedness in all its splendor. Last year Coup demanded that Harvard reduce the 50-year rule on its secret records. This year Coup held a contest to name Harvard's most "inaccessible administrator." If the University doesn't come around these radical activists may roll up their sleeves, put up their dukes and write President...
Maybe the best answer is to stay in Cambridge, where you can have it all. You can take lodging in world-class splendor in your very own dorm room without the burden of heat (for a change) and be served two bountiful repasts of sumptuous cafeteria food each day in the luxurious environs of the Kirkland House Dining Hall. All this for just $63 for the entire break! Whatever you decide, though, there are only two days left to sign up, so hurry...
Baker presides in a glorious, bright office with a log fire that cuts the late-winter chill. He looks out one tall window on the White House gardens, out another toward Alexander Hamilton in the splendor of bronze and new cherry buds. Pity the beasts of political burden in Peoria's Holiday...
...been on the lips of more than one rock singer over the course of the last 30 odd years, and it will probably prove true. But the future looks to hold something for more ominous than the death of rock 'n' roll: its preservation. Not preservation in youthful splendor, like Dorian Gray, but in arrested decay--never improving but merely slowed in its collapse to an infinitisimal slouch, like Joan Collins on collagen-fiber complex, showing remnants of past sexiness and vitality but long past the capacity for excercising them...
...motion-picture law, convinced the courts that Famous and Odeon were engaging in restraint of trade. A year later he bought the Odeon chain, but his battle with Famous still rages. Recently, he purchased half of a '20s Toronto movie palace and restored his section to its original rococo splendor. Famous owns the other half; through legal maneuvering Drabinsky has kept that portion shut. One day, to enforce his will, he dispatched several armed guards with Dobermans...