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...When good Americans die," said Oscar Wilde, "they go to Paris." For anyone who has not planned on the trip, there is the Comédie-Française, a glorious traveling museum that has been presenting French classical drama for 299 years and sees little sense in breaking up a winning combination. A fortnight ago the Comédie opened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with Molière's Le Misanthrope as part of a four-week visit to New York and Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It will also present Feydeau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Fool for Truth | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...home, Tommy's gifts seemed evident enough. He did not begin talking until age two, but then he spoke in com plete sentences. He was soon memorizing advanced charts of human anatomy, and could whip his grandfather at chess at age four. But at school Tommy produced conflicting est results (once scoring low in mathematical ability, later achieving a very high score). Teachers frequently complained about his short attention span, and sent him to stand out in the hall to keep him from distracting the other children. Because of his undisciplined be havior, he was at first denied admittance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was the Kid Too Smart to Learn? | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...disinterested observers agree, they do a good job. An analogy can be drawn with the space program. In its early days it was plagued by sloppy work and accidents, but now the National Aeronautics and Space Administration enforces tight safety controls on contractors. If the Nuclear Regulatory Com mission had been equally tough with the utility industry, some veteran observers of the space program believe, the Three Mile Island accident would not have happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Looking Anew At The Nuclear Future | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Enforcement of the state ERAS varies from negligible in Virginia to considerable in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. But in gen eral, says the Civil Rights Com mission, the effect "has been one of substantial strides toward equality," achieved in an orderly way. Some results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Evolution, Not Revolution | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...largest cars. The company, which began offering the engine as an option on some Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs in 1977, expects to sell 190,000 diesel-powered cars and light trucks this year, or about 4% of all GM autos. Barring further Government interference, the com pany expects to expand production of diesels throughout the coming decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Total Revolution | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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