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...dancing schools across the country, there was a sudden demand for lessons in the nearly lost tapsichorean art. Vogue jumped on the bandwagon last March by suggesting that "a few tap lessons might be just the thing to stir up lots of good feelings" and advising readers to call Dance Magazine for details. The response was overwhelming. Dance's Nancy Mason, who fielded the inquiries, says that for weeks "I was spending most of my day telling people where to go to learn to tap-dance...
...cooler Burger Court seems unlikely to stir the nation, more likely to let the law jell for a time, as its predecessor had begun to do. It seems to lean toward a different Supreme Court role: providing calm at a time of dislocation and national self-questioning. Yet the Burger Court may also risk a kind of partisanship, a tendency to resist social change, favor police power and not hear the claims of minority groups, to whom the Supreme Court had recently become the most responsive branch of Government. None of this necessarily means that the Burger Court is unrealistic...
This book, which is just now scaling the bestseller lists, has actually been around for eight years. It was published in London, without causing much commercial stir, shortly before the author, a young American poet, killed herself. Bringing it out in the U.S.-after years of opposition from the author's mother -was either smart publishing or egregious good luck...
...falling sharply, a decline that the Nixon Administration and private economists have since been counting on to help lift business out of the 1970 recession. But in the past three to four months, the rates have been rising again (see chart) and the bounceback has gone high enough to stir worry. Henry Kaufman, a partner of Salomon Bros., warned last week that a continuation of the rise would "eventually abort the economic recovery" by making financing difficult...
...suggestion will no doubt stir rage in both Washington and Havana. But it is a sad and telling commentary that Cuba has rarely been so honestly run as during the brief U.S. occupation (1899 to 1902) under General Leonard Wood, who helped eradicate yellow fever and set up an ambitious, though thoroughly inappropriate public school system modeled on Ohio's. Thereafter, a succession of charming thieves and defective democrats occupied the presidential palace. The most candid was Alfredo Zayas (1921-25). Upon passage of a multimillion-dollar harbor bill, he announced that he had "300,000 good reasons...