Word: notes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly line. It is no new insight to say that Harvard students are conformists, nor would it be novel to note the insular nature of a laundry list of everyday student concerns, the food in the dining halls, the extension we need to get, the study card that has to be signed, the party in Quincy House...
...this acceptance? Why is enduring taken as a proof of strength? Was civilization not meant to serve? Have none of these people ever taken the trains in London, Paris--even Chicago? Don't they know it does not have to be this way? The newcomer, on a rising note of hysteria, begins to speak of the indignity and passivity that haunt the 20th century. More in sorrow than in anger, the real, regular commuters shake their heads and insist: "You don't understand...
...missing children. In conjunction with next month's telecast of Surviving, ABC * has produced a 30-minute program on teen suicide, a series of short news features and other educational material. The movie will also be followed by a direct appeal to troubled youths. "We end on a positive note that resonates in people's minds," asserts Executive Producer Frank Konigsberg. "This movie will be preventive medicine...
Other market advisers are rallying around Lowe, who has continued to issue his 5,000-subscriber Lowe Investment & Financial Letter, a tip sheet that sells for $195 a year. They note that newspapers and magazines do not have to be licensed. Said Norman Fosback, president of the Florida-based Institute for Econometric Research, which produces five investment letters with 60,000 subscribers: "Hopefully, the Supreme Court will now rule once and for all that the First Amendment applies equally to every American." Support also has come from such newspapers as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, which have...
...started out as Marino's bright particular sidekick both last year and early this season. Then the untaciturn Hoosier Clayton came babbling along. As the defenders flowed to Duper, Marino turned to Clayton. A more mature Smurf, Nat Moore, took a pensive look at the pair and made a note to retire after this season, his eleventh...