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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...context of achieving a just peace, we agree to sign such a document as the one stipulated in U.N. resolutions, which indicates the transfer from a state of war to a state of peace; namely, a document ending the state of belligerency. This document is a peace document. All efforts for peace, including the Geneva Conference, are taking place within the framework of the U.N. and under the aegis of the two superpowers. Our concern is to achieve peace, and the document to be signed should be a peace document. To make it clearer: we are either in a state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Peace, But Not This Year | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...courses dealing with the arts and the humanities. Certainly the study of Black literature and the arts, is not, in and of itself, open to criticism; these areas constitute an important aspect of the Black experience. However, the Black scholar, in studying the humanities, must view them in the context of the political and economic situation of Black people. The arts are not "separate" from or "above" society--they derive their content not from some cosmic source, but from the society in which they operate. The scholar who does not recognize this merely renders him/herself less able to understand...

Author: By Peter Hardie and Bruce Jacobs, S | Title: On the Brink: Afro-American Studies At Harvard | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

...glider, with its willow-and-bamboo frame and cotton-cloth covering. When Lilienthal died near the turn of the century, his last words were reported to be: "Sacrifices must be made." In the museum's military aviation exhibits, that sense of sacrifice is pervasive, if in a different context. The most durable warplanes are there: the Fokker, Spad XVI (Billy Mitchell's own), P-40E, B26, Spitfire, German Messerschmitt and Italian Macchi MC-202. So is the old workhorse of World War II-and beyond-the DC-3. Said one former combat pilot, standing before a full-scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Second Hottest Show in Town | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

Third Eye. What happened might strain credulity even in the context of a Rosemary Rogers novel. Working only at night for more than a year, she rewrote one of her childhood tales 24 times, then mailed it to Avon. Today the author lives quietly in a small dramatic villa perched on a crag above the Pacific near Carmel. Her three oldest children are now away from home. "I'd like to live with a man," she admits, "but I find men in real life don't come up to my fantasies. I want culture, spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosemary's Babies | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...curriculum, and we appreciate the time and effort that has already been devoted to this complex question. Nevertheless we felt it our responsibility to observe that the matter has not yet been resolved to the best advantage of our students. We would urge the faculty, in the context of its complete review of undergraduate education to consider the importance of the arts in the intellectual development of every educated man and woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Task Force on College Life Summary of Major Recommendations | 1/4/1977 | See Source »

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