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...entire world should applaud the Italian government for its stand against terrorist demands. Giving in only paves the way for more terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1978 | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Though a few faculty members grumble that Sizer is "using the school as a laboratory for his social experiments," others applaud him. Sizer likes to recall Andover's greatest benefactors: John Watzek, an immigrant's son who spent only a year at the school in 1910 but gave it $5.8 million between 1958 and 1973; Walter Leeds, who came to Andover in 1905 on scholarship and was kicked out nine months later, yet remembered the school in his will last year to the tune of $5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Shedding That Preppy Image | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...like it," said the captain. A crowd of children gathered around, fascinated by the tall black soldiers, their faces scarred with tribal markings. "Not much left to some of these places," the captain observed of the bullet-scarred walls and bombed-out buildings. Then, as the children began to applaud, he told a visitor: "That's why we're here. So the people can come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Thin Blue Line | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...applaud the 1970 hijackings by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the 1972 Munich incident, or the recent Fatah terrorist action, but one must try to understand what harsh realities have motivated some PLO groups to take such a course. Thirty years of refugee life and four fruitless wars have made the Palestinians feel they must cry out louder with more audible means to make their cause heard, and to exert pressure that will guarantee that any future-settlement will consider the Palestinian population as a primary factor to reckon with...

Author: By Nina J. Lahoud, | Title: Thirty Years of Frustration | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

...questions and answers--Vlada Petric directs a questions to Loeb Producing Director George Hamlin: "Since you belong to this institution, do you plan to hire Mr. Serban to change a little bit of the theater we see here, which I find very conventional, boring and stale?" People gasp, some applaud, some laugh. During a reception afterwards, Petric tells me, "Two elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says it with evident satisfaction, almost gleefully. He has made this criticism of Harvard theater before, and says of the institution...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Vladimir Petric Teaches Film | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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