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...freshman, who asked but to be identified, said to had filched a fork and spoon for his room. "I am paying $15,000 to come here." he said, adding. "I think I'm entitled to a spoon for my coffee...
Donning a battered top hat, Conference Organizer James Fraser, 53, called the meeting to order by banging a soup pot with a wooden spoon. The members of his audience, who ranged from stock-market dabblers to professionals from Merrill Lynch and Dean Witter, wore buttons proclaiming slogans like THINK FOR YOURSELF. Said Fraser: "Contrary opinion teaches us to be thoughtful nonconformists, keeping us from being led astray by popular opinion...
...object hidden from sight is still there. It begins to develop fears of strangers and of separation from its parents. At twelve months, the golden age, the baby has begun to walk and talk, and knows that the whole world awaits. Sometimes, clinging to a chair, waving a spoon in a fist, the one year old will throw back its head and crow in sheer delight...
Perhaps being used to the city lights of Boston, Mr. Zucker would not fit into the Colby environment, where you cannot rely on being spoon fed and having your hands held while being shown. One of the advantages of colleges like Colby, located on the outer reaches of the empire, if you will, is that students, faculty and staff become resourceful and are encouraged to get involved in the arts, sports, and the intellectual life of the college...
Journalism's unpredictable demands can occasionally fray the nerves of the staunches! individuals, but TIME'S staffers have learned to take the unexpected in stride. Boston Bureau Chief Barry Hillenbrand was lunching in "your above-average greasy spoon" in Boston's Back Bay when he learned by phone that he had been assigned to report a cover story on James Levine, the internationally acclaimed music director of New York City's Metropolitan Opera. Levine was 4,000 miles away in Austria conducting at the Salzburg festival. Could Hillenbrand, who had reported major TIME stories on such...