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In New Haven they spell presumptuous A-T-T-I-C-U-S, for the Atticus bookstore-cafe. A good place for highbrow wimps who are willing to pay $4 for a slice of dry cheesecake, just to be seen there. For anyone else, this place has "avoid" stamped all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaking a Connecticut Thirst | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

Too much American housing, of course, is panoramicaily 11 sipidmass-stamped suburbs as standardized as boxes on super market shelves, the endless Amway and Tupperware America. It may be fatuous to envision new splendors of design in a nation going to condo and cluster. But interesting, occasionally bizarre ideas are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

The SAAHS is described by Anderson as a "small, exclusive, nonprofit organization founded to recognize scholarly achievement at the undergraduate and graduate collegiate levels." He is perturbed that no Harvard students have bothered to apply for membership this fall, and urges students of all backgrounds, who "possess a wide range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track | 10/3/1981 | See Source »

He believes enduring ethnic traits have led to success or failure. Each immigrant or minority group's values are its "human capital." Thus Japanese Americans have succeeded, despite generations under restrictive laws and incarceration during World War II, because of intense commitment to "the honor of the family." Italian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowell on the Firing Line | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Long years ow Wedgwood service to the English royal family now include the currently popular commemorative pieces that the family company has produced to celebrate tomorrow's marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. The mutual appreciation that has developed between royalty and Wedgewood pottern began about 11 years before...

Author: By Cynthia A. Bell, | Title: Lord Wedgwood the Potter | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

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