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Concludes Stewart of his extraordinary assignment: "There is no need to romanticize these people. That would cheapen it. On some things, we could never agree. But we had, in a way, a common experience, of wartime. I don't think I'll ever be the same again. And in an odd way, I am almost reluctant to leave Beirut, crippled and shattered as it is. This city and its people now wear the survivor's badge of honor. Part of me, I think, will always be here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 6, 1982 | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

Richard E. Neustadt, Littauer Professor of Public Administration, also cautioned against assuming liberalism is permanently dead, noting that if a new form of technology can be found that will cheapen energy prices, "the psychology of America would change drastically...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Experts Disagree On Liberal Agenda | 10/7/1980 | See Source »

...they can change whole sets in the middle of an act. Also, it's divided into several smaller pieces horizontally which can each be set at a different height. The Met is proud of spending fortunes of money because it's not the Met if they have to cheapen it. And in a way, it's a good thing, because it's one of the four best companies in the world, and arguably the best...

Author: By Peter M. Engel, | Title: Confessions of An Opera Star | 1/8/1980 | See Source »

...actress, who was several months pregnant, be discredited with a rumor that her baby's father was a Black Panther leader. Said the agent in a memo, which was dated April 27,1970: "The possible publication of Seberg's plight could cause her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The FBI vs. Jean Seberg | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...insistence of the Standing Committee on Afro-American Studies--which had been set up following the Faculty's acceptance of the Rosovsky report: that concentrators in the proposed department combine their major with an "allied field." The joint-concentration proposal struck many blacks as an insulting attempt to cheapen the academic standing of Afro-American Studies. The spring grew less and less quiet...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Strike as History | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

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