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...someone coming here from a place very different in scope, ambitious and eager to find a niche, Harvard could impart the desire for big expense accounts almost as easily as the desire for knowledge. The people in Mather 311 staged a conference that seems to have been almost a mirror of what they saw in Harvard. They created a United Nations that really was a Harvard model...
...models, Detroit's automakers let their six-week rebate scheme expire last week and began pursuing the less-for-less tack. General Motors, for example, has shaved $219 from the list price of its Olds Omega coupe by making such items as radial tires, day-night rear-view mirror and even the cigarette lighter optional...
...after a round of talks with party leaders, Mrs. Thatcher announced her new shadow cabinet. Though she dropped six members of retiring Opposition Leader Edward Heath's team, her action certainly did not constitute the "massacre" by the "queen of the Tory jungle" that the pro-Labor Daily Mirror called it. Overall, the new cabinet was slightly younger (average age: 49) and only slightly to the right of the one it replaces...
...Yorker (TIME, Feb. 24), Brendan Gill describes his 40-year career at the magazine as "playing the clown when the spirit of darkness has moved me and colliding with good times at every turn." It is a deceptive portrait of The New Yorker; like a shaving mirror, it gives only part of the picture. Once upon a magazine, The New Yorker gave its readers a passport to a world in which everyone was witty and/or attractive, in which sophistication and style-above all, style-mattered more than life itself. In one sense it was a constricted world...
Because Ruth is falling too. I see in her vacant eyes, not the shadow of romance that I once gleaned from a vagabond, but a true mirror of my own eyes. Ruth looks at me and asks herself. Did I jump or did I fall, She looks at her future and seen that I am not part of it. Our two futures are an illusion, Trapped in between our past and nothing, falling through space, we conspire to kill the present...