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President Bok dramatically intervenes in the contraceptives crisis, taking condoms out of the hands of HSA. "Drop by after supper and we'll talk it over," Bok tells Freshmen. "If I'm not around, they're in my top bureau drawer," in a stirring inaugural address. President Nixon calls for "the middlization of America" and as a first move renames the Supreme Court building the "Burger Palace." Harvard Treasurer George F. Bennett ends the problem of his succession when executors of his will reveal he has bequested his son to the University. But IRS agents grab over half of Bennett...
...borrow a method which Balzac refined the physiological portrait, readers are known to be solipsistic, irritable, and insomniac; their version of the world is invented in sacerdotal studies where late at night, the loud voices competing about the lavish midnight supper tables described in Falubert's Sentimental Education in Balzac's Los: Illusions in Zola's Nana rise above the roar of traffic down in the street. Thin urban, and afflicted with nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation...
HILLEL suggest two ways of celebrating Chanukah this week, Dec. 1. PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE. Laurence Senlick reads Sholom Aleichem at a Sabbath Table Talk at 8:45 p.m. Dec. 3, SANDERS THEATRE. Nehama Lilschitz Yiddish. Hebrew and Russian Folksongs, 5 p.m. followed by a Chanukah supper in MEMORIAL HALL Concert, students 92, non-students $1; supper...
...most criticized aspect of rescue missions is the almost universally required attendance at worship services, a sort of sing-for-your-supper attitude But mission directors insist that their spiritual work is far more important than the food and shelter they offer "Christ spoke to 5,000 people all day before he fed them," says Jerry Dunn. "If a man is really hungry we will feed him, but we don't apologize for requiring attendance at worship. If we don't give them a foundation to build their lives on, we give them nothing...
Carved Toggles. Often in the West, miniatures compel the worthless gawking one reserves for Last-Supper-carved-on-a-peach-stone kitsch. Not in Japan, where the image and the scale were one-partly by a happy fluke of social pressure. The Imperial sumptuary laws forbade merchants and samurai to wear excessively rich garments, so male vanity expressed itself in three special kinds of objects: inros, the tiny compartmented cases for carrying seals, or later medicine; netsukes, the carved toggles that fastened the inros to one's sash; and tsubas, or sword guards. The amount of craft lavished...