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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Sandy Denny, 31, understated British singer-songwriter who set contemporary lyrics to music rooted in traditional folk themes; of a brain hemorrhage as a result of a fall; in Wimbledon, England. As lead vocalist for the folk-rock group Fairport Convention, Denny became Britain's top female vocalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1978 | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

DOMINATED BY INTELLECTUALS, the Parti Quebecois is an umbrella party which unites under its independentist banner people of both leftist and rightist persuasions. In its first cabinet, for instance, the P.Q. government had both a labor minister who fought for the highest minimum wage on the continent and for pro...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Quebec: A Question of Culture | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

The Club's leaders seem to have read the proposed constitution quite selectively. They know exactly what their objections are to the section on minority representation; and they have combed the section on finances so carefully as to include ramifications which are not even explicit in the wording. But the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Constitution: Republican Resigns | 4/20/1978 | See Source »

We, the minority, disapprove of the attempt by the Constitutional Convention to create special voting minority seats in any student assembly, as we feel this presupposes an inability of Harvard students to elect representatives according to merit and without regard to race, that it violates a longstanding constitutional tradition of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against the Minority Clause | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

At least Casson managed to fuse dramatic nuance and expressive gesture into an integrated whole. Holly Whipple's glib "In Sequins and Out," on the other hand, merely manipulated surfaces, whether of theatrical convention or of psychological cliche. The plot was straight out of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," predictable from...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: More Than a Theory | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

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