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Thousands of hours and millions of words have gone into producing this newspaper over the past 100 years. Greater and lesser men and women have written for its pages, conducted its business and forged its image. Throughout, the underlying principles of The Crimson have not yielded to time or pressure. As The Crimson enters its second century, editors past and present can vow to ensure that these principles are preserved at 14 Plympton Street...
...traced in meticulous detail the happenstance that brought about the partnership and produced that wondrous series of nine Astaire-Rogers movies in only three years, 1934-36. Among them: Top Hat, The Gay Divorcee, Flying Down to Rio. Astaire was 34 when the series began, and distinctly the lesser half of the famed Broadway act he made up with his sister Adele, who had abruptly quit her career to marry an English lord. Twelve years younger, Ginger was a knockabout ingénue with a track record of some success but no public personality of her own. Astaire was unquestionably...
...reduce the rate of money increase to 3% or 4%. If that happens, he warns, by 1974 "the Fed will kill the boom." On the other hand, Beryl Sprinkel believes that the rate of money growth this year "will be in the 5% range, which will promote a lesser rate of rise in the gross national product in the latter part of the year than in the first part." Interest rates will probably drift up somewhat, but there is unlikely to be a repeat of the "credit crunch...
Like Pindar to some lesser bard. Let me some sound advice award To Beckett: Stick thou to thy last, Reverence the masters of the past. And listen! O thou wayward Muse Who first let Beckett on the loose: Small habits, when pursued betimes, Soon reach the dignity of crimes. Michael Ryan...
...successes of the Nixon-Kissinger policies, there have been some missteps even apart from Viet Nam. One evident weakness is that the balance-of-power design has not allowed much of a role for lesser nations. The White House has tried to compensate by declaring that in reality Japan and Western Europe are the two additional poles in a pentagonal relationship. Argues Harvard Government Professor Stanley Hoffmann: "We have, especially in Asia, moved as if the era of horizontal great-power diplomacy had arrived, and our weaker allies are disconcerted. We have, both in Europe and in Asia, behaved...