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Hector Banegas, chairman of La Causa, said the purpose of the occupation was to make Amherst adapt to the needs of minorities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Sit-In | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

Smith, without a doubt the most alented soccer player at Harvard in the last four years, had to adapt to a number of changes since coming to the States last fall on something of an impulse. But he has not lost his British sense of humor and not much seems to faze...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Michael Smith Finds A Home | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...element, having played the sport since grade school. By the time he was 15, Smith was playing up to 100 games a season and he made the last 22 of the British junior national team in his senior year. But, even there, Smith had to adapt. "It's certainly the first time, at the school level, that I've been on a losing team," he says. "In a few games it's hurt my game. Sometimes it seems it's been a struggle...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Michael Smith Finds A Home | 11/10/1978 | See Source »

...gifted German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder hired Playwright Tom Stoppard, author of that Nabokovian whimsy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, to adapt Despair for the screen. Except for one grave lapse, he has done so effectively and with suitable reverence, and Fassbinder has assembled a first-rate cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doubled Up | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

...walk in the nearby woods is part of the daily routine. Cheever confines his writing-on "a long book"-to the mornings. He recently finished an original 90-minute play for public television, but fends off invitations to dramatize his stories for the home screen. "You can't adapt a story any more than you can adapt a baseball game," he says, gesturing. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inescapable Conclusions | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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