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...corruption spread. Even Harding began to notice the borborygmic rumbles coming from his overstuffed subordinates. By then it was too late to avert scandals, although Harding did not live to suffer them. He died, apparently of a heart at tack, perhaps complicated by simple bafflement. Today, in a more cynical age, it is hard to believe that so many officials could plunder so brazenly. Mee's version of this gaudy time is light and entertaining. It may also, if the reader wishes, be taken as cautionary...
South of the Border is not artificial-flowers-formica-tables-plastic-trails-through-the-living-room a little tacky. It is the showroom of tack, all the kitsch of America distilled into 100 acres by the side of 1-95. There are 304 motel units, 103 campsites, four restaurants, three gas stations, 17 stores, miniature golf, a train ride through the woods, not to mention a 200-foot observation sombrero, all based on a Mexican theme filtered through several layers of bias, ignorance and Hanna-Barbera. As the brochure says, "Ees onlee wan South of the Border, Amigos, where Pedro...
Since the chances of taxing Harvard appear slim, a panel of Cambridge citizens two months ago, urged the city to take another tack. Their suggestion was to raise the rates charged Harvard and other city institutions for water, sewer hookups, and other services. Their proposal would tack the costs of Water Department administration and a percentage of all city administration costs onto the water charge: it would raise the rate for all residents, but there would be an offsetting tax reduction for everyone but the tax-exempt universities. The proposal may not pass, for city councilors don't like...
Organizing for the march entailed presenting himself publicly as an interested party, and Schatz remembers the first awkward announcement. He was taking Government 133. "The Politics of Women's Liberation," and wanted to tack up a poster announcing the march. After posting it on the bulletin board one day before a lecture, Ethel Klein, assistant professor of Government and professor of the course, suggested he announce it to the class. "I thought to myself, 'What!, before all these people?'" But he did, and all went well...
...Talley's Folly. But the moment is over quickly. And anyway, Wilson obviously knew what he was doing--his play has been a hit in New York and other cities, and won the Pulitzer Prize last year. If to sell a delicately unpretentious, inspirationally rich play Wilson had to tack on a bit of dramatic muzak, that seems an acceptable price...