Word: disasterously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A confidential report recently submitted to Mrs. Gandhi's Cabinet concluded: "The most alarming prognosis is that not even 10% of the Hindu evacuees may choose to go back. If this becomes a reality, it might be disastrous for West Bengal's economy, and this economic disaster is bound to...
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus turned up on television this past summer with Richard Burton in the title role and Elizabeth Taylor as Helen of Troy. No play so great has ever failed so abysmally. Not even Marlowe's poetry could save the film from its stylistic pretensions--no important line...
It is too bad, however, for the Bengalis and other innocent victims of disaster and turmoil. But they should not fear. Americans are a compassionate and benevolent people. Think of how much they could give to charity, food programs and disaster relief if they were not taxed to support the...
One year ago, the mammoth (207,000 enrollment) City University of New York began its innovative Open Admissions program, which guaranteed classroom space to any city applicant with a high school diploma and imposed a three-semester moratorium on academic dismissals (TIME, Oct. 19, 1970). The purpose of the program...
This was the girl whom Franklin Roosevelt, a remote collateral, fell in love with and married in 1905, when she was 21 and he was a handsome, dashing 23-year-old law student. The marriage eventually proved a durable public triumph, but a pitiful private disaster. As one astute cousin...