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...MOST IMPORTANT, the economics of pragmatism threaten to exacerbate China's two great silent schisms. The urban standard of living--coupled with increased opportunities for education and advancement--will continue to outpace the lifestyle in rural areas. The problem is already acute--the memory of extended country vacations during the Cultural Revolution are vivid--and new incentive systems and the influx of industry into provincial urban areas can only make things worse. The embarrassing stresses produced by the city/country gap--including much-publicized visits by impoverished farmers to Peking to demand high standards of living--may multiply to the point...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: From Party Chairman to Board Chairman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Blackman can work some magic with his secondary and offensive line--and he has always had a reputation for pulling off the unexpected--Cornell could threaten for all the marbles. Right now, however, the Big Red look a little thin to maintain consistency over the grueling ten-game slate, which includes formidable Rutgers as an adversary. The Crimson will have the good fortune of catching Cornell the week after the Big Red's showdown with the Scarlet Knights...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...world of the Many distracting man from the One; Jagger only goes further by equating women with the world. This is not an album about women, but an album about physics, as the thermographic pictures on the sleeve would indicate. Jagger resents women as agents of entropy who threaten to dissipate the energy that is the essence of his art. In a less sophisticated way, Jagger sees the world the same way Henry Adams did, and St. Augustine centuries before. But where Augustine saw his rescue in God, and Adams nowhere, Jagger clings to his sexuality, to the idea...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...Blackman can work some magic with his secondary and offensive line--and he has always had a reputation for pulling off the unexpected--Cornell could threaten for all the marbles. Right now, however, the Big Red look a little thin to maintain consistency over the grueling ten-game slate, which includes formidable Rutgers as an adversary. The Crimson will have the good fortune of catching Cornell the week after the Big Red's showdown with the Scarlet Knights...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Six Have Shot at Ivy Crown | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

...world of the Many distracting man from the One; Jagger only goes further by equating women with the world. This is not an album about women, but an album about physics, as the thermographic pictures on the sleeve would indicate. Jagger resents women as agents of entropy who threaten to dissipate the energy that is the essence of his art. In a less sophisticated way, Jagger sees the world the same way Henry Adams did, and St. Augustine centuries before. But where Augustine saw his rescue in God, and Adams nowhere, Jagger clings to his sexuality, to the idea...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: The Man Who Loved Woman | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

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