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An earlier America seemed to have many eccentrics, such as Johnny Appleseed and Thoreau, both of whom heard "a different drummer." The Boston Brahmins produced Eleonora Sears, a ferocious walker who once hiked 110 miles nonstop. Mrs. Isabella Gardner shocked Beacon Hill by practicing Buddhism, drinking beer and strolling down...
Together, Mia and Dustin represent a coincidence of other myths: the airborne colleen and the earthbound Jew, Peter Pan and Peter Schlemiel, the miserable winner and the happy loser. Like most myths, they contain an indissoluble grain of truth. Mia Farrow has been cowering from show-business success like a...
Harvard's sophomore-studded Nordic team, featuring Christian Ferner, Jim Platz and Rowley Hazzard, should produce enough points to keep the Crimson forces in contention for the team trophy. Ferner won the Norway Nordic championship last year, but has done little skiing since coming to the U.S.
To this colorful collection the Italians have lately added a less likely hero: the industrialist. He has earned national popularity because he and his kind are transforming Italy. The industrialists have produced an economic expansion that Italians call Il Miracolo or, simply, Il Boom, which has laced the countryside with...
To dignify their often absurd arguments over such ceremonial questions, diplomats talk about "modalities." The word is derived from "modal," which pertains to form as opposed to substance -and history is studded with episodes where wrangles over form all but prevented negotiators from ever getting down to substance.