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Word: ams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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I am shaking with outrage and fear. I've had one traffic ticket in my life, with none of the strip searching in the police station [March 19] you mention. However, I would probably become a basket case if such a thing did happen to me. A person seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 9, 1979 | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

Ten years after he died my memories have begun to fade; the photo on the wall, the row of books on my shelf remain. But he has become the most important moulder of the way I think, the way I would like to live. Throughout his life he brought passion...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Joseph R. Levenson: A Retrospective | 4/6/1979 | See Source »

The distortion which this creates is partially clear where my statement is concerned. I said that "Most wars are fought for idiotic reasons and destroy more than they create." I made this statement as an individual speaking about an issue which concerns me deeply because of its effects on all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sexism and the Draft | 4/5/1979 | See Source »

This, of course, brings me to another question--not the what or why I teach, but the where. In Afro-American studies the where seems always to take precedence over all other questions. At each moment of my academic life. I find myself having to explain why I teach in...

Author: By Selwyn R. Cudjoe, | Title: Afro-American Literature | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

Near the end of her 20-min. mad scene, Miss Havisham cries out, "I am tired!" There is a derisive titter from the audience. They have sympathy for Soprano Rita Shane, who plays Miss Havisham. She has flung her voice valiantly through trills, runs, arpeggios, and sung paragraph upon paragraph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Immolation of an Opera | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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