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...romantic whim...

Author: By Sam Ecureil, | Title: Lampoon Movie Worsts | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...embroiled in family hang-ups, is at last rescued by and reunited with boys, who in her absence has achieved hard-earned success and learned humility into the bargain; and (c) beautiful girl loves no one but herself, isn't even sure about that, abandons, faithful beau on a whim, travels a long a lonely path that leads her back to the boy who has loved her all along...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Good At It | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...perhaps an overly hasty judgement. In some matters, to be sure, the new Premier echoed Salazar's old policies. Caetano insists that Portugal's determination to retain its African "provinces" was a matter of national policy and not just the whim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portugal: A Second Salazar? | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Students get almost nothing from participating in decisions as they have done in the past: at the whim and fancy of the administration. All previous examples of student participation have been the meanest instances of tokenisms...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Power at Harvard | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

...case, starting as a happily married, witty college professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Whim and Welfscfimerz | 11/15/1968 | See Source »

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