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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play cannot live, Seldes says, if the actor fails to feel for it with "a caring" that embraces the whole meatrical enterprise. Her theme emerges clearly: "To act without love is cruel...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: A Life on the Stage | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...their heroes. The next generation, the storytellers' audience, is left to figure out which characters are worth emulating, which adventures are worth repeating, and which are best dismissed as the folly of another time. The storytellers can't know what will be of use; it is not theirs to act upon the lessons their history offers...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: The Historian as Romanticist | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...stress on bread-and-butter issues?inflation, taxes and spending?has blurred party distinctions, sometimes beyond the point of recognition. Democrats are sounding like Republicans, or even more so. Specifically, Democrats have been quick to sense, and act on, the popular support for some traditional Republican arguments. "It's beginning to look like everybody is in the same party," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tax-Slashing Campaign | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Three hours and a hundred-thousand words later, most of the representatives are still going at it. Now the issue is the Nestle's boycott. Many want to act quickly so the assembly can counter arguments that it will not act on substantive issues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Tale of Two Cities | 10/18/1978 | See Source »

Each black student must, therefore, act on his or her own. Each must, in the words of Booker T. Washington, "drop you bucket where you are," which means that each student must act within his or her immediate context, and wait not upon the weight of the herd to propel change...

Author: By Martin L. Kilson jr., | Title: Black and White in the Ivy: The Ethnic cul-de-sac | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

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