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...theater is the theater, a faith taken on faith, a seraphic dream from which none of the participants ever fully awaken. The motive power of The Dresser is that passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Passion's Cue | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

After the fatal shots were fired, Bocel Cumes ran to awaken Sister Gonzales and the other nuns. They all returned to Father Rother's sleeping quarters, where they found him lying in a pool of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guatemala: Case Not Closed | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

...still proceed on the unexamined assumption that growth and profits are the only concerns of the corporate manager. The study of ethics has fared no better. By remaining silent, business schools not only fail to awaken their students to a larger sense of their calling, they neglect their responsibility to their profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Money Chase | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

...George Eliot observed, there is a roar on the other side of silence, and in recent years the voice of Soviet Jewry has sometimes been loud enough to awaken whole nations. Even those lost souls of the '50s are no longer still; they speak with renewed eloquence in The Testament, Elie Wiesel's 18th and most accomplished book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Testament: Sounds of Silence | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...argued that Tally's targets have already been amply peppered, but that objection will not suffice. The perennial aim of satire has been to reiterate the obvious in order to awaken us from abject moral slumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fizz and Fury | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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