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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer must be sought in individual consciences. Eliot was guilty as charged, not so much in his poems, which mingle his thoughts with those of other, indeterminate voices, but in scattered remarks elsewhere: a few slurs in his letters, a stunning prescription in a 1933 lecture for the establishment of a "living tradition" in a society: "What is still more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable." Such an abominable opinion cannot be excused, yet Eliot has defenders who find the issue regrettable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Long Way from St. Louis | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...movie, based on a book by Eliot Asinof, tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Yes, It's So, Joe | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...answer is, or at least should be, no. At least, not if one looks to the Kennedy School's original mission, or the functions it has filled in its last 25 years. When the school was renamed in honor of President John F. Kennedy '40, the founders decreed that Harvard's School of Public Administration would be training an elite new corps of public servants to serve the nation...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Getting a Philosophical Facelift | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

What happened to the Dukakis lead? The answer to that question reveals the problems that have been plaguing the Dukakis campaign over the last month. It is a metamorphosized George Bush, or better yet, the revamped campaign philosophy coming out of the Bush camp. The strategy could have come right out of a Vince Lombardi playbook: offense, offense, offense. Keep your opponent on the defensive even when he thinks he's attacking...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: The Best Defense for Dukakis is a Good Offense | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

...answer is for government to find ways to bring down the cost of health insurance and to make it more affordable and available, but not to mandate an outrageously expensive program that in other countries has already proved itself to be absolutely the wrong way to go," Goodin said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dukakis Unveils Health Insurance Plan | 9/21/1988 | See Source »

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