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...antique grandfather clock that stands in Richard De Gennaro's Widener Library office carries the weight of Harvard tradition...
...After a week of muggy weather when the humidity stood steadily at 92 percent, the storm broke furiously at about 6 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a 10 foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarms and drew three fire engines...
...They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The gritty, poignant musical about a Depression-era dance marathon is derived from the same Horace McCoy novel as the 1969 film starring Gig Young and Jane Fonda. The phenomenon of the endurance dance is grimly compelling in itself: couples shuffling around the clock for months, withstanding exhaustion, injury and humiliation in pursuit of the cash prize for the last pair standing. But the script evokes the '80s as well as the '30s and suggests the sick symbiosis, then and now, between would-be stars grabbing at a grimy corner of show business...
...fathers. Children can thrive in many circumstances. But there is a danger in the current attitude that plays down the deficit with which a child enters the world with half a family and that places a woman's self-fulfillment first. Hard as it is to hear the biological clock ticking and not be able to do anything about it, gratifying the yearning to have a child is not the same as satisfying the other indexes of having it all. Some yearnings in life go unfulfilled. What is socially and emotionally acceptable to a woman...
...ever have any doubts about what you're doing? Do you ever wake up at 3 o'clock in the morning and wonder if this is crazy...