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...mere string of jokes. One of the high points is a romance between Dave and a sorority girl (Robyn Douglass) that begins while he is wearing the Italian accent he cannot abandon. His courtship includes a Neapolitan serenade beneath her window and a touching time when he must finally confess his impersonation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cutups | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...admires Pearson the man and the reporter, but not some of his tactics. "The accumulation of these tragedies, to which I was a direct contributor," Anderson says, raised a question: "Were these stories...worth the lives or sanity of people and the incalculable destruction wreaked upon their innocent families?" Confess Anderson; "There are seasons when it seems a close call." Muckrakers find themselves scorned by those Anderson calls "the tone setters of our profession." Having won a Pulitzer, as Pearson never did, Anderson now heads a successful journalistic cottage industry employing 17 reporters. He is seen five times a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Muckraking Is Sometimes Sordid Work | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...been deliberately contrived by the oil companies, aided and abetted by Government collusion or ineptitude. Washington in fact cannot evade the charge of bungling. A few weeks ago the Department of Energy was predicting that gasoline supplies would be more plentiful in June than in May. Now officials confess that they have no idea how much gas drivers can count on buying for the rest of the month, the summer, the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Great Energy Mess | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...MOST recent report to the Harvard Corporation, the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) recommended that the University continue its role as the pen pal of corporate managers, writing "forcefully worded" letters to persuade reluctant corporations to confess their sins and reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pen Pals | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

Richard C. Marius, director of Expository Writing, said Tuesday, "I must confess I gave my students only a very general idea of what was expected of them...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Poll Shows Freshman Favor Distribution of Course Outlines | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

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