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Dancers cavort before a student film crew while near by a gallery displays subtle canvas-on-canvas paintings. Elsewhere young men and women read their latest poetry and a symphony orchestra rehearses a new work, Metamorphoses. The title is appropriate, for the setting is not some artsy experimental college but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: M.I.T.: Beyond Technology | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

A HAGGARD, HONEY-HAIRED 37-year-old mother of seven children spoke to me last July in the locker room of a Catholic boys' school in the Andersonstown section of Belfast. She chose the locker room not as a secret meeting place safe amidst the bombs and bullets of the...

Author: By John ANTHONY Day, | Title: Northern Ireland: The Life Missed | 2/17/1973 | See Source »

Fidelity to nature was not something new, but no one really expected the extent of the early Pre-Raphaelites' imitating nature. Their subject matter was drawn from the Bible, Greek mythology, and, true to their medieval inclinations, Arthurian legend. Stylistically some of the human figures might look like Botticelli angels...

Author: By Lydia Robinson, | Title: The Brotherhood | 2/13/1973 | See Source »

In the first round the challenger looked and acted like a playground bully, fending off the champion's dipping, weaving attack by simply shoving him backward with the heels of his gloves. Frazier got off a few of his highly touted left hooks, but Foreman either blocked them or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Instant Champion | 2/5/1973 | See Source »

What was it about Foreman that captured the crowed as Ali does but Frazier never could? Don't ask Joe Frazier. Six times he got up from the ice-blue canvas after seeing it without seeing it at all and went back after Foreman to look for it. But, he...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Says Joe | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

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