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...interested in the University's Affirmative Action program have come to expect rejections by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) of Harvard's ever-changing proposals. Ironically, a group of women who work in the University organized last year to form "Women Employed at Harvard," whose acronym (WEH) contains the letters which haunt Massachusetts Hall...
...recent telephone conversation with Corey Patterson, temporary co-ordinator of Women Employed at Harvard, Mr. Leonard confused that group (WEH) with the GWO. Such identification problems would not have occurred had either group been on a consultation basis with the University. As far as its relations with the various Harvard women's groups, the University has a lot more wrinkles to iron out. Joan M. Todd Co-President Graduate Women's Organization
...blue, Brose will say: "Bim bom ban on his brain pan." Except for a slight slackening of the pace in Act II, it's bim bom ban, bang on, all the wEh. Brose moves his pink-nightie-clad bride (Alexandra Berlin) into the boiler room and begs her for understanding. Says she fretfully: "The trouble with getting inside your head is that once I'm there I'm on my own." Brose has been growing mushrooms in the boiler room, and near curtain's drop they sprout hallucinogenic caps. Brose munches...
...names of God in the Old Testament, was considered so awful that Jews never pronounced it, and in reading it substituted another name, such as Adonai. There are no vowel characters in Hebrew, and scholars guessed that, with the missing vowels supplied. JHVH should be written "Jehovah," pronounced "Yah-weh." This belief was followed in the 1901 American Standard Bible- U. S. edition of the English Revised Version of the King James Bible. Today, scholars have their doubts about the authenticity of the word "Jehovah." Last week, Yale Divinity School's Dean Luther Allan Weigle announced that "Lord" would...
...account of Charley [sic] Chaplin's first night, with Dr. Einstein shedding big scientific tears, and Mrs. Einstein saying 'ach weh' should be read by all young reporters...