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...Civic Symphony of Boston-- Benjamin Zander, conductor, Jordan Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: March 1-March 7 | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

...there are shortcomings. Housing is scarce. Even the most vocal Wichita cheerleaders admit to a certain provincialism. Bible Belt conservatives have barred the public sale of liquor by the drink. But the city is on a culture kick. In the past decade, Wichita has opened a flying saucer-shaped civic center that dominates downtown, a 12,200-seat coliseum for conventions and cattle shows, one of the nation's better Indian museums, two art museums, a planetarium, a zoo and three new libraries. That hardly makes the community a rival to, say, Chicago. Yet almost everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Strength in the Midsection | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...also an accomplished cellist, and a member of the All-State Orchestra who had also performed with the Missoula Civic Symphony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Student Stabbed to Death In Washington | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

...rise above the mistakes and difficulties of her first eight years in Washington and to establish herself on Capitol Hill as a major voice for enlightened social policy and vibrant internationalism") is forced to skate across a thousand yards of very thin logical and civic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's First Step to a Second Clinton White House | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Anyhow, self-improvement is not incompatible with sociability. Even joggers have been known to donate to the United Fund. Such matters ought also to be spread on the record-but without any intent to identify the '70s as the "civic decade." It has, unquestionably, been a confused time, neither here nor there, neither the best nor worst of times, as free of a predominant theme as of a singular direction. Maybe the reason is not even visible. Maybe the little energy left over from the '60s got mostly spent, in secret, on assimilating and liquidating the traumas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The '70s: A Time of Pause | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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