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Freund's remarks came at the inauguration last Thursday of a special exhibition at the Law School marking the 40th anniversary of Holmes's death. A Harvard law professor and a distinguished Justice of the Massachusetts and United States Supreme Courts, Holmes stands as one of the intellectual titans...
Boring and pretentious. Where is Tom Wolfe now that we need him? Ten years ago, as The New Yorker ever so quietly celebrated its 40th birthday. Wolfe uncorked a two-part profile of the magazine that sent its editors and friends off muttering about hatchet jobs and "parajournalism." Wolfe's article ran in New York magazine, then the Sunday supplement of The New York Herald-Tribune. His first installment was headlined "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of The Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of The Walking Dead!" It was a great piece, nasty and accurate. "The Ruler of 43rd...
...Celebration concerns the 40th wedding anniversary of the Shaws, and their three sons who return home to make an occasion of it. Mr. Shaw (Bill Owen) has a weak heart from working in the coal mines of Northern England. Mrs. Shaw (Constance Chapman), doted on and fussed over, defers to her husband but remains an enigmatic center of her troubled household. The three sons are creatures of compromise and uncertainty. Andrew, the eldest (Alan Bates), has forsaken a legal career to paint geometric canvases. His flattery and good will always carry an edge of irony that barely conceals a fearful...
...request of the patient, and with the understanding on Edelin's part that it would result in abortion of the fetus. Therefore, the defense cites the January 1973 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade to demonstrate that all abortions--even up to the 40th. or last week of pregnancy--were legal at the time of the operation, especially because Massachusetts had not exercised the option as outlined by that ruling of limiting the legality of abortion on a viable fetus...
...THIS FALL, in a speech to the 40th alumni class, Bok indicated that time has also erased his earlier doubts about co-educational living. According to the class book, he explained that it helps people who would have been "wallflowers" under previous housing arrangements. On the other hand, the class book says Bok insisted that, although one of the dangers facing Harvard is pressure to accept unqualified minority applicants, Harvard has--so far--not compromised on this issue. Bok wasn't available last week to verify the report's account of his talk--he is on a two-week trip...