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The most notorious confusion of all surrounded a Core course called Literature and Arts B-16, "Abstraction in Modern Art." Like a horde of wildcatters racing to the site of a gusher, some 600 students (roughly a tenth of the undergraduate population) descended upon the Fogg Norton Lecture Hall, hoping...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: S.R.O. | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

More metaphor than mythology, the Goddess is vital to Graves' poetry and much more. "The political and social confusion of the last 3,000 years," he once told a visitor, "has been entirely due to man's revolt against woman as a priestess of the natural magic, and his defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artful Pursuit of Goddesses | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

MEANWHILE, the movie drifts toward abstraction. The director leads Mauro through surreal landscapes to emphasize the psychological confusion--buildings, yards, and even acquaintances are presented in a manner so stylized that mere vestiges of reality remain. It drifts further: Battalions of ghost-like children in night-gowns prance beneath the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symbols | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

For many people, used to buying a hair dryer but paying a monthly charge for their phone, the changeover is bewildering. Says Michael J. Friduss, an Illinois Bell executive: "We had a tremendous rush of people thinking that this was their last chance to get a new phone. Some customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Money | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

On revising Japan's antiwar constitution: The three cornerstones of the building of postwar Japan have been the peace treaty following World War II, the U.S.-Japanese security treaty and the constitution. The Communist Party and the left wing in general have argued for a policy of unarmed neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Nakasone | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

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