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...says. Those eager dissenters now have reason for pause. Their leader awaits them with copious bylaws. To the Quad folk--from your dearly beloved Dean Fox, Alas, look ye forward to many empty socks. And although good ole Cabot will renovate soon. Those poor folks up there cannot transfer till June. While up at NoHo, they"ll tear up the floors. And send all of Cabot streaking through Moors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Holiday Ode | 12/18/1984 | See Source »

Ultimately, the most important foreign policy goal for Reagan II lies in domestic politics: to achieve at least some measure of consensus on foreign and defense issues, especially regarding the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the more or less bipartisan approach to foreign policy that prevailed from World War II till Korea-some would say till Viet Nam-was neither typical nor natural. Yet there are special moments-this may be one-when the normal partisan quarrel over foreign affairs can be muted if not suspended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reagan II: A Foreign Policy Consensus? | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...thought if I'd admitted what was original in others I'd have lost my own little melody." He is like a Salieri who has taught himself, through a lifetime of small disappointments, to accept that he will never be a Mozart. It is not till the end of this Sunday that he realizes the importance of following his own little melody. He puts aside his sofa still life, sets out a fresh blank canvas and ponders his resolution to start anew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Finding Life in a Little Melody | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

More troubling still is the inappropriateness of the town gown till given the stature of the visitor and the cause he represents. Tutu was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to win political and economic justice for South Africa's nine million Blacks and "Coloureds," who currently live under the oppressive rule of a minority white government. The urgency of this cause cannot be overstated and it is testimony to its extreme nature that organizations such as the city of Boston have taken the unusual step of corporate divestiture. In fact, the irony of the University's indignant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Hubris | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...getting to know a place: "You have to drum a town into your head with your feet. You have to walk till you're lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In the Land of Far Beyond | 11/26/1984 | See Source »

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