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...standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel I'm home." Plausible? In London, Thornton Wilder once provoked astonishment by referring to his temporary accommodations as home. How use the hallowed word to refer to a hotel room? Explained Wilder: "A home is not an edifice, but an interior and transportable adjustment." It is surely that, along with all else, as immigrants to the U.S. prove over...
...pronounce the word with a broad "H". President Lowell read from the Bible to silent students and walked his spaniel Phantom around the campus, one could and occasionally did walk to Walden Pond, The Advocate published with some regularity, and the clubs were a center of College life. As Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, later president of Atlantic Richfield and RCA, recalls: "The Porcellian, Delphic, A.D. and Fly were still spoken of with awe by those of us who were in the lesser clubs" Adds Thomas Boylston Adams '33. "There were classes of course. Some time had to be given...
...slam was an obvious reference to the close relationship between Agee, 44, and Mary Cunningham, 30, who became a Bendix vice president for strategic planning just 15 months after joining the company and then resigned amid rumors that she and Agee were romantically linked. In another broadside, RCA Chairman Thornton Bradshaw noted that his firm is engaged in the delicate maneuver of deciding which businesses to sell and which to keep to become more profitable. Said he: "This is precisely not the time for us to permit anyone to attempt to meddle with or in any way destabilize the effort...
...called rape--of course, the fathers never intended the real thing--is thoroughly staged, and staging is really what the whole show is about. Written around the time of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. The Fantasticks is filled with the play's brand of direct remarks to the audience about the play in progress. A narrator introduces the characters who, in turn, give brief synopses of their lives. We are told what plot turns are to come, and even what lessons to derive from...
...decision to give up AFDC and food stamp programs, which he has criticized as being vastly abused, while retaining Medicaid, in which abuses are more likely to be committed by doctors who overtreat and overprescribe than by the indigent ill, angers some state officials. Says Gerald M. Thornton, director of social services for North Carolina's Forsyth County: "He wants to take Medicaid, a respectable program, and give us food stamps, a program that's so unpopular that a person who gets stamps might as well be wearing tattoos. That's like getting a gift of garbage...