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...time I get to sleep, I think constantly about sex and death." In this he is not too dissimilar from the rest of humankind. But there is a dark side to Allen's obsession that occasionally hovers above the laughter. From the beginning, for instance, he has been fond of ambiguous God jokes: "The message is, God is love, and you should lay off fatty foods." God references appear throughout his films and sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private I, is on the lookout for the Supreme Being. "Somebody with that description just...
...undiscovered territory between man and his universe. Perhaps it can once more be accepted as a legitimate pursuit of knowledge, no longer hedged in by bell, book and candle. Perhaps, eventually, religion, science and magic could come mutually to respect and supplement one another. That is a fond vision, and one that is pinned to a fragile and perpetually unprovable faith: that the universe itself is a whole, with purpose and promise beneath the mystery...
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS at Harvard are fond of comparing their program with the much-publicized Yale Plan. Yale's long-term loan program--announced last Fall--provides for the repayment of indebtedness as a percentage of income over a 35-year period. The basis of the program is an attempt to have those who most benefit financially from their education bear the lion's share of the cost. Yale's plan does not utilize Federal subsidies...
...Kierstead '50, the executive city editor, was disappointed when reporters came back without "quotes, color, detail, and incident." Without those items, the 5 basic points of the story--Who, What, Where, When, and How--were useless. Bill McCarthy, who managed the news operation, was fond of pointing out to his more heady reporters that "this is a newspaper story you're writing, not a thesis." A long six-part series I wrote once on defects in Boston's tax collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned...
...city government to change the names of the streets--Herald Street and Traveler Street--that abut the plant. I hope they do not erase these two tiny monuments to failure, and if they do I hope someone will say for us all. "HUB SCORNS NAME CHANGE, LAUDS FOND MEMORY...