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...such effort is a day-care center for young and old alike set up by Stride Rite Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., the first private company to establish this type of facility. The $700,000 pilot program, which opened last month after three years of planning, consists of adjoining centers that allow easy mingling and interaction between 55 children, from 18 months to five years old, and 24 elders over 60. Separated only by windows and hallways, the old and the young have plenty of opportunities to visit one another. Shared activities such as cooking and birthday parties are planned...
Other honorees took it in stride. Beth M. Quitslund '91 said that she was "pleased, honored and vaguely surprised" to receive the award...
...arrival of a politically more assertive Germany is a reality that the rest of the world must also take in stride. Germans are less apologetic and less willing to accept international tutelage than they used to be, which comes as something of a shock to others. Yet Germans could do more to ease the transition. "Little things add up," said Angelika Volle of the German Society for Foreign Affairs in Bonn. "What Germany needs right now is Fingerspitzengefuhl, a delicate, tactful approach...
...chauffeur in Miss Daisy, a role he originated in the off- Broadway production, and producers have anointed him a bankable star. "People will be making parts for Morgan," declares producer Richard Zanuck. But Freeman has heard such talk before, and he is taking all the praise in stride. Recently, he, his second wife, costume designer Myrna Colley-Lee, and their seven-year-old granddaughter E'Dena began to live part time on their 38-ft. ketch Sojourner, which is moored in the Caribbean. "When you live in the world of make-believe, you need something real," says Freeman...
...best part of this volume can be found in the 16 stories following the unfinished novel. Five have never been published, and the rest were never collected in hard covers. It is difficult to imagine why not. Malamud hit his stride early, writing stories of old men trying to preserve their dignity amid the shambles of harsh circumstances. In The Literary Life of Laban Goldman, an elderly Jew attends night school to improve his English and get away from his nagging wife; he experiences a brief moment of triumph when the Brooklyn Eagle publishes his letter to the editor urging...