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...witty and endlessly inventive. He could write of himself without being a bore, recording "Thoughts of his own death/ like the distant roll/ of thunder at a picnic," wryly admitting that "Gluttony and Sloth have often protected him from Lust and Anger," and boasting gently that he was not vain "except about his knowledge of metre and his friends...
Economists are often accused of indulging in mysticism; in the case of Hendrikus J. Witteveen (pronounced Wit-uh-vain) it is a simple statement of fact. A brilliant academic who twice was Finance Minister of The Netherlands, Witteveen is also a vice president of the Sufi movement, a Muslim sect that is dedicated to mysticism and to meditation...
...were describing the sights of Paris to his 117 passengers. "I have mechanical trouble with my engines," he told the control tower at Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
...generation different from the one that cut loose in 1969, and there is something like a generation gap in between. The older radical Feminists that I know are so jaded about this new generation that they read 'lowered consciousness' into trendy clothes, 'straightness' into studiousness, and all that looks vain as 'all was in vain...
They say that the Square sells more books than cigarettes. Now that may be a vain boast; it is no secret that many of Harvard's best and brightest make it through four years without reading any. Somebody is either compulsive or hungry for book larnin' though, because books are big business in the Square. The Coop in the Annex in back of the main building) is the largest bookstore; it stocks almost all of Harvard's textbooks. The textbooks are on the third floor, paperbacks on the second, and hardcovers on the first. The Harvard Bookstore (1248 Mass...