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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...social criticism there is no trace. The nurse in Meal for a Convalescent, who stands opening a boiled egg in a kind of reverential silence, like a secular descendant of Georges de la Tour's saints, is not a representative of the class war; the efforts of some historians to see Chardin's servants as emblems of an oppressed proletariat on the eve of the French Revolution are simply beside the point. A sense of social precariousness is the last thing one could expect to meet in a Chardin; indeed, one can hardly imagine him working without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sonneteer of a World at Rest | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Quite apart from Dale, this is a top-hole cast. There are some problems inherent in the play. Peter Nichols (Joe Egg, The National Health) has really scrambled three plays here- a sequel to Oh! What a Lovely War, a sequel to The Boys in the Band and an indigenous British product of the past quarter-century that might be called Britannia Rues the Waves. This is a form of retroactive remorse for colonialist sins that one no longer possesses the power to commit. If Maggie Thatcher succeeds in turning England around, she may sound taps for a generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Singapore Sling | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

Rosovsky says, however, while no "restricted funds"--bequest money tagged for a specific purpose--are earmarked for Af-Am, many departments have no such nest egg. Rosovsky adds that his office juggles unrestricted funds to assure financial security to departments with no restricted money of their...

Author: By Eileen M. Smith, | Title: Afro-American Studies: On the Threshold | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...even higher level of price supports for growers. With that in mind, Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church is pushing for a rise to 17? per Ib. Frets one industry lobbyist in Washington: "All this agitation for more subsidy is going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg." If so, it is about time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Going Sour on Sugar Payoffs | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...secrets of olive oil, flour and cow cheese, goat cheese and sheep cheese. As if photographing each step on their minds, the students crane forward to retain the maestra's skill in boning chicken breasts ("Save the skins!"), her hammering of scallopini, her preparation from scratch of four-egg pasta in just about every form from agnolotti to trofie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Ohio: Saut | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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