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Word: chaine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have diminished that he will be able to fulfill his role as catalyst for a comprehensive settlement embracing all the Arab nations that remain in a state of war with Israel. Some observers are convinced, however, that the P.L.O. raid and the Israeli reprisal are part of an inevitable chain of events that is pulling Sadat toward making a separate peace with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Israel Severs the Arm | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...major character in Da. What time does for Charlie is to make him realize that what he yearns to do-exorcise the past-is not only impossible but self-defeating. He is bonded to what he wishes to sunder. Like all of humankind, he belongs to the great chain of being, and his father is his closest accessible, unalterable link in that chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Urn of Memory | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Harvard this week when administrators in the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G)--maintaining they had no work for the carpenters--reassigned five union members to different jobs. The carpenters told Harvard what to do with the reassignments, and promptly went out on strike--triggering a chain reaction among all Harvard employees in the building trades...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: Q: When Is a Carpenter Not a Carpenter? | 3/24/1978 | See Source »

...Midwestern Arcadias. "The only corn-fed art that was ever successful was the pre-Columbian," Davis snapped in 1934. His own vision of America as subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and ironwork of the past; Civil War and skyscraper architecture; the brilliant colors on gasoline stations, chain store fronts and taxicabs," as well as "Earl Hines' hot piano and Negro jazz music in general." His desire, he wrote, "is to construct formal souvenirs which are an agreeable emblem" of the "speeds and spaces of the American environment." In its voracious inclusiveness (admitting, as subject, anything American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stuart Davis: The City Boy's Eye | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...that story with a straight face, so Mamet has told it with a borrowed voice. The time is 1934, the place a radio station. The play is being acted out before microphones, which means that all of its virtues are peripheral and nostalgic. A spectral voice pushes the Depression chain-letter craze; a rabble-rouser denounces capitalistic society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Trickle | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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