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...looked on," he remarks. "In New England there is hardly an alternative other than a furtive sense of having been conspired against, which, difficult of concealment, leads one's neighbors to say one has 'turned queer.' " Then he warns: "In age a man may become a stranger in his native land." He wonders, too, if the intense preoccupation with the future so often institutionally urged upon the aged is realistic. "The past is secure, the present only reasonably so, and the future, even looking ahead to Thanksgiving or Christmas, is-who knows...
...administration is no stranger to labor battles: over the last year alone it has squared off against individual workers (such as Sherman Holcombe), unions (the dining hall workers), and labor organizers (District 65). But intra-management challenges like Brown-Beasley's are something new to Harvard and apparently something about which the University has much to learn...
Most Receptions: 36. Although this record did not take place during the game, a word must be mentioned about the heroic postgame performance of Yale undergraduate Dooley Stegaropolis in 1972. "Dilled Dooley," as he is now known, although then a stranger to Cambridge, promptly established himself by popping into every after-game Happy Hour from Jellybeans at "Jacks" to coffee and doughnuts in Gutman Library...
...unsophisticated youth meets a glamorous, mysterious stranger, and Learns Something About Life. It is an endlessly employed formula that has generated such high and low art as The Great Gatsby and Auntie Mame. This first novel, The End of the Party, by Marvin Barrett, is yet another variation on the same theme. Here, the part of the glittering mentor is played by Dexter Hillyer, a Midwestern-born artist who rose to fame in the 1920s as a chic illustrator. Hillyer is seen through the few but vivid memories of his godson Emerson Mercer. The stages of his life are marked...
Like 90 million of his fellow Americans, Jim Walsh of Royal Oak, Mich., sat down with his family last Thursday night to watch the first Ford-Carter debate on their 21-in. color TV. But, unlike their neighbors, the Walshes had invited a stranger into the family room of their suburban home. Both Jim and Pat Walsh were undecided about whom they would vote for on Nov. 2. So Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold asked if he could join them for the debate, to report firsthand on their reactions to the candidates...