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...paid for indifference and for silence." Carter said that he had vowed "to reaffirm our unshakable commitment that such an event will never recur on this earth again." The only way to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, he said, was to "harness the outrage of our memories to banish all human oppression from the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Can Catch Fire | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...cast and crew of Not Necessarily In That Order are doing their bit to banish the reading period blues. They are reviving this revue for two performances and "for all the people who didn't get to see it" during the original run. The title is the punch line of a thousand old jokes, but every skit and song in this comedy revue is original. Andy Borowitz (book and lyrics), Fred Barton (music) and their five-person cast hope to recreate the original evenings of "unbridled fun." To create an informal nightclub atmosphere, director Borowitz has kept the staging simple...

Author: By Troy Segal, | Title: Up in Arms and Out to Lunch | 1/11/1979 | See Source »

Fall carries with it the charm, if that is the word, of politics. Great names are made and broken in October and November, and the making and the breaking is usually enough to banish the doldrums of summer. Certainly the process produces surprises. If apathy and doldrums still lingered in late September, Ed King banished them...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Remembrance of Things Past | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

That do corrupt my air, I banish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Class War | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...internal woes, the quality of play in the decade since tennis went open has become the best in the history of the game. No longer are players required to banish themselves from the top tournaments in order to earn an honest living. Kramer remembers: "If you took money under the table, you were violating IRS regulations, but the minute you did it honestly and legally, you were out of the big tournaments. It was a cruel system. You'd win Wimbledon and the next time you'd go back, you couldn't get into the locker room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Home for a Troubled Game | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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