Word: attendence
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both sides would agree to the round-table conference. After two days in Dar es Salaam, however, American negotiators complained that the Patriotic Front leaders were more adamant than ever about the role they want to play in a transition government and unwilling to say publicly that they would attend the round table. African observers insisted that Nkomo and Mugabe had merely adopted a tough negotiating posture and would make concessions later. Vance, however, was disappointed that he would not be able to tell the internal-settlement leaders flatly that the other side had agreed to attend the round table...
...possible to approach the subject of the Holocaust with all kinds of metaphysical pretensions. The producers of Holocaust, knowing their medium, audience and tremendous potential for popular influence, avoided the deep mystifications that attend most theories about the aesthetics of atrocity. The philosopher T.W. Adorno once claimed that to write poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric. If those who made Holocaust had taken that warning seriously-it amounts to an injunction to silence-they would hardly have dared anything as vulgar as a TV show. But in telling the story as soap opera enlarged to historic proportions, the producers never truly...
...baking rum-laced cakes to be blessed at Easter Eve services. Crowds, including thousands of atheists, will flock to watch the predawn procession of crosses and icons around Moscow's Yelokhovsky Cathedral, where Young Communists in red armbands stand by outside to see that only regular worshipers actually attend the rites. Inside, bathed in the glare of thousands of candles, the congregation will join Pimen, Patriarch of All the Russias, in the great cry of triumph, "Khristos voskres!" (Christ is risen...
Felske commented that the Seven Sisters Tournament may be replaced by an Ivy League round-robin for next year. "We really need to take this step," Felske said. "Right now there is not really an Ivy League championship since Princeton and Yale do not attend the Seven Sisters," he added...
Several students who said they supported the principle of divestiture added they did not attend the rally because of academic concerns. "I am not out supporting the protesters because I've participated before and now I have too much work to do." Janet C. Teltscher '81 said yesterday...