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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never quite comfortable in the life he had chosen for himself, and was always making earnest resolutions to reform. During his cult-of-the-sun phase, which succeeded his Wilde/Huysmans phase, Crosby traveled to Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper of the sun, he was handicapped by an aversion to heat and to southern parts." Something of his prosaic Boston background apparently survived in Crosby despite his flamboyant efforts to thumb his nose at his heritage...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Epitaph For the Sun | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

Clinical trials this summer showed the swine flu vaccine to be considerably less effective among young adults than among older people. The vaccine successfully produced antibodies in about 50 per cent of subjects under 25, compared to a success rate of 70 to 90 per cent in the older population...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: Harvard Study, UHS Disagree On Swine Flu | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

Orren said they would expand the groups of leaders surveyed to include labor leaders, a group they had tried without success to include in the Post poll...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Poll Shows Support for Feminism | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

...work," Green came in, almost on cue--the two seem to collaborate even on their conversation: "Suddenly all the reviews, all the seven papers there were in the City, started saying great things. People began coming from all over." But, as the team stressed, analyzing the mechanics of their success, "You just can't write for what the audience will think...because you're not at the mercy of your audience. You're at the mercy of yourselves." The cutting edge of Comden and Green's satiric genius has always saved them from Readers Digest popularity...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Old Tunes | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

...March 1st TFAA rally represented a momentous success for the democratic forces at Harvard. On a cold, misty afternoon between 200 and 400 students demonstrated in opposition to Harvard's discriminatory policies and the government's compliance. The speakers at the rally well represented the broad spectrum of the TFAA's supporters, including the Harvard Employee Organizing Committee, Radcliffe Union of Students, February First Movement, supporters of progressive kitchen worker Sherman Holcombe, and a TFAA spokesperson. This rally called attention to a variety of grievances felt by many sectors of the University population. For example, active discrimination had been exposed...

Author: By William Fletcher, | Title: The Spiders' Web: Affirmative Action and the Struggle for Democratic Rights at Harvard | 9/28/1976 | See Source »

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