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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anderson quickly decided. In his view, the muckraker "has more confidence in America than most others." Why? Because his work teaches him to respect-and depend on -three American virtues: "First, the relative scarcity of corruption [a trait that will come as news to regular Anderson followers]. If it were the norm, it would not be news. Second, the probity of most citizens: if the majority found official corruption undisturbing, the cry of the reformer would become hollow. Third, the ultimate responsiveness to truth, when forced to the wall, of our governmental system...
...answer will depend on what you think museums ought to do, but in the area of art history it would be very hard to better the main summer offering of Washington's National Gallery of Art, "Early Italian Engravings." This is a recondite field, for Italian Renaissance prints are rare, and great ones excruciatingly so. Simply because they were meant to be widely distributed-whether as cheap ex-votos or as artists' samples-most of them have been lost...
...swap crews. "Be careful you get back on the right one," warns the chief conductor, Joe Ford, as he spots a passenger alighting dangerously between the two identical silver liners. By nightfall the train is heading into the "back o' beyond," where tiny settlements along the track still depend on a fortnightly supply train called the "tea and sugar...
...cent sure" that Harvard will approve plans this month to run a bus at 6 p.m. daily from Dillon Field House to Radcliffe. He added the Administration is considering running another continuous nightly shuttle from the Yard to the Quad, but a decision on the second bus will depend on whether one of the University's departments can be persuaded to foot the $40,000 bill...
Each of the two previous settlements--the 1954 Geneva agreements and a special 1962 Geneva pact--established the neutrality of Laos as a first principle upon which a lasting peace would necessarily depend...