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While some participants felt the two approaches were complimentary, others felt the rally--at which students waved a Ronald Reagan dummy on a stick and chanted, "Reagan He's No Good, Send Him Back to Hollywood"--hurt the serious, informed image lobbyists were trying to convey...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Chorus of Protest | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

...exercises, had suddenly taken a threatening turn. The Israelis were now persuaded that a coordinated Egyptian and Syrian attack would be launched late that afternoon. Since the Arabs were certain to be defeated, she suggested, the crisis must result from their misunderstanding of Israeli intentions. Would the U.S. urgently convey to the Soviet Union and to Israel's Arab neighbors that Israel had no intention of attacking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

That doesn't sound so much like horror or anarchy or even the insides of the horror, the causes of it. It sounds more like studied expression, a bit of stylized rhetoric and not a real indication of where the problem lies. Possibly Bellow intends to convey the impotence of to speech about the subject. But that seems unlikely. Though Corde is not Bellow, there is an unmistakably close relationship between the intellect of creator and character...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

Ronald Lee Fleming, the council's first director and another of a recent book on public art. Says the generation need not convey specific political ideas. But should instill in people certain community values through the built environment [and] rein force people's sense of being together in a place that has history, color and particular meaning...

Author: By Clare M. Mchugh, | Title: Art for Community's Sake | 2/18/1982 | See Source »

...page. But there was more. While the editors made a strong and important case for a draft without exemptions for the rich and the connected, they concluded that a draft would "temper our conduct in the world." This was certainly not the message that former President Carter sought to convey when he ratified the Selective Service Act shortly after Russia invaded Afghanistan. The expressed purpose of registration was to demonstrate that we were over the "Vietnam Syndrome" and prepared to defend our national interests. Our current president found the need to extend registration because he has "discovered" that the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Against Conscription | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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