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ONCE AGAIN, students and faculty express frustration as Harvard's gates shut out another young scholar. "Tenure Rejected," reads the inscription at the top, "seek ye employment elsewhere." And without further explanation, one more Harvard junior professor hits the road...
...Once in a rare while a freshman story will embody the absolute essence of mortal terror and existential nausea, a crash dive into the dark firmament of human life. In these stories the inscription above Dexter Gate reads not "Enter to grow in wisdom," but instead "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...their films shall ye know them. Looking at any national cinema, a viewer inevitably sketches a personality profile of that country: its mood and tempo, its political priorities, its sense of humor (if any) and, above all, its attitudes toward sex and romance. Americans, to judge from the movies they make and attend, are fast, rough, raunchy lovers -- backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their...
...Profumo scandal, strikes, strife and the sinking of traditions in a new tide of commercialism. The fate of the Swan's Nest, an old inn in the vicinity of Rapstone, is symptomatic: "In the course of time it would be taken over by a motel chain, re-christened Ye Olde Swan's Nest and given piped music, colour TVs in every bedroom . . . an enlarged car park and the Old Father Thames Carvery...
Among the 131 senior party officials who resigned were a few supporters of Deng's modernization drive and daring economic reforms. The majority, however, belonged to an older, revolutionary generation whose primary loyalties were to the past. Gone were half a dozen aging military men, including the ailing Marshal Ye Jianying, 88, who had helped Mao Tse-tung plan the Long March of 1934-35 (see SPECIAL SECTION). Gone too was Politburo Member Deng Yingchao, 81, the widow of Premier Chou En-lai and the country's highest-ranking woman official. Also on the retirement list were three former Ministers...