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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role of Douglas's wife Adele is probably the most difficult in the show. While Mrs. Douglas narrates the play from the perspective of old age, she also appears as a young wife. Unfortunately, actress Kathryn Kirkwood goes overboard in an attempt to distinguish between the two roles...

Author: By Amy R. Gutman, | Title: Rivalling the Worst | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

SEABROOK, N.H.--Several thousand nuclear protesters will attempt an illegal takeover at dawn today of the partially constructed nuclear power plant here...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Seabrook Protesters Prepare at Site | 10/6/1979 | See Source »

Title IX, you might or might not recall, was born back in 1972 when the folks down in Washington decided that men and women ought to have equal opportunities to participate in athletics. Last December, in an attempt to explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Lost in the Bureaucratic Sludge | 10/5/1979 | See Source »

Tavernier is utterly unable to reconcile his vision of Bouvier as society's victim and the audience's gut response to these atrocities. His attempt to weasel out of providing firm answers by "prettying up" these murders verges on the immoral. To kill young children is a heinous crime and no amount of earlier abuse can explain it away...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Gross and Stupid | 10/4/1979 | See Source »

Norman Frederikson, an ETS research psychologist who is working on the project, said yesterday the tests are "an attempt to measure characteristics which are not well measured at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETS Developing New MCATs That Measure Practical Skills | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

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