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...apparent to us that students could vacuum their own floors and that money could be spent better elsewhere," college spokesman Ray Boyer said this week about the end of maid service...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Maid Service | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

...This growing old!" he says as he turns into his 60s. "I suppose I should envy the afterlife believers, the genuflectors, the happy-ever-after ones who know beyond a shadow of doubt that we shall all meet again in some celestial vacuum, but I don't. I'd rather face up to finality and get on with life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts." Perhaps that cool, rather brave philosophy explains why he never in fact did grow old, and why the best of his work remains ever fresh and, like the title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Dogs and Blithe Spirits | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...agreeing that publishers have the right to print anything they want is no excuse to ignore other possible ways of protecting society's potentially suicidal readers. Firmly supporting freedom of the press is irreproachable, but insisting that this right, unlike all other value judgments, must be exercised in a vacuum is absurd. Efforts to control Suicide indirectly--like the vigorous efforts of French groups to pass laws punishing suicide "accomplices" are simply essential in keeping scrutiny of the question alive. There is no point in being doctrinaire about such power...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: No License to Kill | 10/6/1982 | See Source »

...Into the vacuum rushes film critic Diane Jacobs. "Only his analyst," burbles the book jacket, "could possibly know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs." Jacobs does, in fact, take something of the analyst's approach: dutifully "listening" to, or in this case recounting, all the content of each of Allen's works, then examining it for patterns. She succeeds in detecting a few basic clues. The later movies are subtler than the early ones, for example, and Allen the artist separates himself more and more from Allen the persons. Oh, and there are some continuing themes: the contrast...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Woody | 9/28/1982 | See Source »

Ward and others said they hoped the guide, which had evolved from an independent-study project, would fill a long-standing vacuum of necessary information as well as encouraging Blacks to apply to a greater range of schools. The format for the book seemed as simple and well-intentioned as the concept behind it: Each of the 114 schools included in the book would have a similar statistical breakdown revealing, for example, the number of tenured Black faculty members and percentage of Blacks receiving financial aid. A narrative summary of each school based on a dean's questionnaire and about...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: A Textbook Case of Mismanagement | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

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