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...anti-Communist, Podhoretz supported the American intiative in foreign affairs. As a liberal, he was shocked by America's continued prosperity which many had expected to disappear after the war, and was forced grudgingly into the conclusion that "America works...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: The Business of Intellectuals | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...know when somebody says something prophetic (thunder claps in the background) and you know when the witches are coming (bizarre piano medleys screech behind the gauze curtains). The best musicians, meanwhile--banjo and fiddle players Thornton Lewis and Matthew Brown--make one stage appearance and, sad to say, disappear...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beyond Redemption | 10/26/1979 | See Source »

Nixon understood immediately that if the Soviet Union succeeded in humiliating China, all prospects for world equilibrium would disappear. He decided-and I fully agreed-that if the Soviet Union threatened China we would not stand idly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...more concretely in budgetary tables than anywhere else--made possible a $223,000 surplus in the Faculty budget. That money looks insignificant next to the gargantuan $50 million overall Faculty budget, and you shouldn't expect it to help moderate next year's tuition increase. The $223,000 will disappear into the Faculty's Fund for Instruction, a $4 million account which has absorbed past surpluses and from which the Faculty covers any deficit it runs...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Booking In Advance | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...drifts in from the kitchen where Anna, the cook, is at work. "The day is a crescendo reaching its climax at lunch," says Di Nunzio. "Lunch is very important. Luciano will be singing a phrase, and abruptly he gets up, still singing, and walks away. Luciano and the phrase disappear into the kitchen." If Di Nunzio paces restlessly past the kitchen door, Pavarotti looks up smilingly from a steaming saucepan-and whistles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Privacy, Pavarotti Style | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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