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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason we should call our river after an obscure and no-account English King. We should spend nothing and rename the Charles River the Curley River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Boston: Confronting a Curley $65,000 Question | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...Bulkeley, like Journal readers who wrote letters to the paper supporting his account of the class, questions whether or not students need to lie at all in order to identify and learn to cope with deceit they may encounter in business...

Author: By Cecily Deegan and Stephen R. Latham, S | Title: The B-School vs. The Wall Street Journal | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...January 12 Harvard Gazette, Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor of Iranian, gave us a succinct account of how the Shah "wanted to bring his country into the 20th century quickly but in doing so disrupted all aspects of society": the aristocracy and middle class invested in industry and many became rich, while their children got educated abroad and sometimes became disaffected. Peasants crowded into the cities and agriculture declined. The priorities were quite wrong. "The United States and Europe contributed to the terrible mistakes made under the Shah's rule because American and European businesses were just interested...

Author: By John K. Fairbank, | Title: Reflections on Iran and China | 2/28/1979 | See Source »

...Americans practiced in a veritable frenzy of patriotism. Terry Bradshaw strengthened his passing hand by squeezing the milk out of coconut shells. "No more Mr. Nice Guy," vowed Mean Joe Greene. O.J. Simpson promised he would play, gimpy leg or no, and jumped over two Avis sedans and three account executives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armageddon in the Superdome | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...other Opus 200, In Memory Yet Green, is a guide to Asimov himself: a detailed, candid account of his early days in Brooklyn, in the developing field of science fiction, in the worlds of college teaching and book publishing. In Memory, which follows its central character to his 34th year (he is now 59), may not fall into the same class as Rousseau's Confessions. But like the author, it is ceaselessly informative and entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

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