Word: springly
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...Shareholder Responsibility and the key word there is not responsibility but advisory. Because as the ACSR, which includes students among its members, has turned increasingly liberal, the Corporation has shied away from those suggestions and remained conservative. Not much has really changed from four years ago, when a spring night brought 3500 undergraduates into the streets of Cambridge with candles and placards and shouts that Harvard should sell its holdings in companies in South Africa. The Corporation initiated what it called a case-by-case review back then, a review that is still going on, a review where the endless...
...opportunity here has a dark side, closely related to the housing problems. Some fear full-scale shifts in employment patterns--in a few years, they say, only people up for a Nobel Prize will be able to find a job in the city. Their influence was felt last spring when they won concessions from city industrialists, who agreed to set aside many jobs in a new development for Cambridge residents with high school educations. But some fear that the restrictions may halt the growth before it begins; that growth is essential to the city's tax base...
...works for years, but the killing seemed to give them new impetus. But the proposals, which will involve busing hundreds of students in an attempt to racially balance predominantly white schools in some parts of the city, remained politically controversial. The school committee punted the case last spring, setting up a program that will tentatively balance the system but only for one year. This fall, the wary politicians will have to decide how far to go, a decision that may be made easier by the threat of state intervention should they act too timidly...
...postnuptial vacation for what she says will be her final year in silks. "This is my favorite track," says the 35-year-old jockey, a.k.a. Robyn Smith. "It's the oldest in America. I was the first woman to ride here ten years ago." Smith will spend next spring on the race courses of Europe and then, reluctantly, hang up her spurs. "Fred," she explains, "thinks riding horses is dangerous. It isn't, but he is my No. 1 priority. I like to keep him happy...
Novelists during the past 20 years have been so busy making up the truth that they have not had much time for fiction. The names of Norman Mailer and Truman Capote spring immediately to mind, along with their catchy formulations, "nonfiction novel" and "the novel as history." Mailer, nurtured on emanations from Marx, Freud, Kierkegaard and Wilhelm Reich, can be an inspired explainer of the modern cloven spirit. Capote, the old Southern boy, steeped in regionalism and the oral tradition, is the storyteller, the Mother Goose of U.S. writing...