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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There can be no doubt that we Catholics have in Pope John Paul I [Sept. 4] the best man for the job at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...doubt they [the PLO] have the capacity to mount more than sporadic opposition," Michael Walzer, professor of Government, said yesterday. He added that the opposition would probably not have an effect on the outcome of the peace initiative, citing the lack of impact of the opposition to Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last November...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: Professors Express Guarded Optimism About Camp David Peace Framework | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

...principal and Methodist lay minister, he defends his leniency to the poor by quoting the Bible: "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me." He also admits to a "tendency to give the poor party the benefit of the doubt." But Taunton declares that playing good shepherd to indigent defendants was not the real reason why he almost lost his job. "Uncovering" corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Robin Hood Of the Bench | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...found a vehicle perfectly suited to his range. For the material most resembles an extended song cycle. Nuance, focus and miniaturized drama are the order of the evening. Piety aside, the broader and deeper emotions are not often invoked. The performance unavoidably remains a bit rarefied, which is no doubt why it is booked for a three-week run in the small (249 seats) theater of Manhattan Marymount College. After a similarly modest beginning in London, however, it escalated into one of last spring's solid West End hits. McCowen is scheduled for a three-month tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Telling Triumph | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

Philip Roth proved that New Jersey, summer camp and a claustrophobic family life could inspire brilliant satire. Whether they could inspire tragedy remained in doubt until Julia Markus addressed herself to the theme of growing up Jewish in Jersey City. Tragedy requires the decline of a hero, and Markus has invented one-however low key-in this somber, eloquent novel: Irving Bender, the son of East European Jews for whom the immigrant dream of success had come to nothing. "Irv's father drank and gambled and died," she writes in her terse idiom. "The mother got along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irving's World | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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