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...picture accompanying your article on the National Women's Political Caucus convention shows four Congresswomen, two of whom are wearing open-toe shoes appropriate for the beach rather than Congress. Unless women take a more professional approach to their work, they will continue to be left behind...
Does Chicago need an official song? Former Alderman Louis Farina has long thought so. Embarrassed by the peppy, toe-tapping rhythms of Chicago and My Kind of Town at official ceremonies, Farina pushed for and got a city-sponsored contest to pick a more dignified ditty. Jane Byrne, then Chicago mayor, offered $5,000 from her campaign funds as a prize...
...this be topped? No. Added to? Taken apart for demonstration? Spoofed? Hardly. But here is Jerome Robbins, an eminent choreographer and veteran theatrical wizard, presenting it all as a 35-minute classical ballet complete with toe shoes. In any serious sense he does not succeed. New York City Ballet, alas, does not have any girls as sexy as Rita, nor any boys who even set one thinking of Fred. The secret formula for the chemistry of Astaire's ballroom duets remains intact. Despite all this, Robbins, shrewd old romantic that he is, has come up with a diverting piece...
...SIXTIES HOLDOVER" is an epithet that hangs over the head of almost any student struggling to change Harvard's mind on anything, but the issues which sparked student activism this year showed just how much time has passed since that landmark era. Students who find themselves toe-to-toe with the University on any issue with moral overtones have, indeed, tended to see themselves as part of a grand tradition of morality fighting stubborn bureaucracy--a tradition whose tools include rallies, sit-ins and hunger strikes--even when their current causes barely resemble those of the tumultuous times a when...
Drawn from "The Joy of Sex" and "The Joy of Cooking," Moffat's introduction begins with columns of words of abstract terms about reading in French, sex acts and objects, and ways of preparing mushrooms. Affirmation Armpit About Babel Bathing A la Schoener Babil Big toe Bisque and clam Bords Bites Broiled Brio Blowing Broth Clivage Bondage Butter Communaute Boots Canape Corps Butterd bun Canning Commentaire Chains Cauliflower and Derive Chastity belt Creamed Dire Chinese style Croquettes Droite Clothed intercourse Dried Echange Corsets Florentine Ecoute Dancing Frozen Emotion Discipline Identification Ennui Exercise Lima beans and Eavers Feathers Marinated Exactitude Femoral...