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Gomes, who will sit on the Foundation's Faculty committee, says he thinks the University has made a wise decision by setting up the Foundation and installing Counter as its head. "The long view is the right view," he says. "We're most in need of a change not in policy, but in ethos...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Foundation Primer | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...drummer Charlie Watts in action, and you will probably find that famous wry smile and sweatless brow. He knows what he's doing by keeping you waiting for his occasional flourishes. Though he may look a little bored, Watts understands the unique funkiness his bosses need, and he is wise in the ways of making studio productions sound like spontaneous jam sessions...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Black and Blue No More | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...director of the University's public relations office, Lord is responsible for creating a positive image of Harvard: wise, but not overbearing; worldly, but not mercenary. Often her job is simple; 40 to 50 reporters call her each week, eager to quote a Harvard expert on the nature of some truth or another. But every so often someone asks about 1969, or about racism, or about investments in South Africa. "Expectations of Harvard's infallibility are just like Gatsby's problem," says Lord, recalling the F. Scott Fitzgerald lecture she used when she taught Expos here. "When Gatsby finally came...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Deane Of Image and Reality | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...first to read, and like, the manuscript was an older struggling writer who was teaching there: Kurt Vonnegut. "A dear, dear man," says Irving of his longtime friend, "enormously decent, generous and wise." By this time John was married to Shyla, had a son and was just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

Runkle also dated a couple of her clients. Her most serious friendship apparently had been with Johnny ("Fat Man") Campo, Pleasant Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Days Of Dr. Runkle | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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