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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are other, exacerbating dimensions to the problem. Indeed, there are exquisite ironies. The Shah is very much a creation of the U.S. He regained the Peacock Throne 25 years ago as a result of the bold but covert exercise of American power (a CIA-engineered countercoup against leftist Premier Mohammed Mossadegh). But two things make such intervention impossible now that he is threatened again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Self-Paralyzing Policy | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...instructive irony that the country that was for so long at the bottom of the heap in job creation is now so close to the top. The country is Ireland; its method of generating employment is to lure private investment, mostly from the U.S.; and its Pied Piper for industry is a former Gaelic football and hurling player, Michael Killeen. He is a man of Donegal, that scenic but tragic county in Ireland's west that sent so many of its youth to America (including four of Killeen's uncles and aunts) because they could not find work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Pied Piper for Industry | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...instance, some of the NUS demands: increased student aid until all student fees are abolished, systematic national planning of education, elimination of financial barriers preventing international students from studying in Canada, greater affirmative action policies in the realm of education, and the elimination of unemployment in Canada through government creation of jobs. These issues, especially the demand for full employment, indicate a concrete student-worker alliance that may have great ramifications in Canada. In many West European nations? particularly Italy and France--it is this alliance that has effectively challenged the idea that capitalism is the best...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: National Union of Students | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...legions wore tunics and helmets of war, the opera appeared to take place during a truce. The characters seemed symbolic figures in a morality play, and majesty and miracles were in short supply. A stunning exception was John Butler's choreography of the dances depicting the creation and union of Adam and Eve. The awakening of Adam (danced by Dennis Wayne), in which he slowly uncurled from a womblike position, was a high point in the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heavenly Bore | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...Ibsen, Chekhov, and Strindberg) should continue to serve as staple for repertory theaters, but that there should be "no more piety, no more reverence, no more sanctimoniousness," and no more dull, "definitive" productions: each new production of a classical play should be regarded "less as a total re-creation of that work than as a directorial essay upon...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: A Brustein Portrait | 12/9/1978 | See Source »

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