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TIME'S excellent article on Nicholas Nickleby [Oct. 5] only begins to describe the perfection of the Royal Shakespeare Company's ambitious endeavor. The richness of the production is unforgettable and beyond price. Perhaps the most exhilarating moment of the entire day came at the curtain call, when an obviously overjoyed company appeared to be dumbstruck by the deafening cheers from the standing audience...
Labor has led in this endeavor, but it is up to others to follow. Students were conspicuous by their absence Saturday, although Reagan's destructiveness will hurt us as much as any group. Others should join in the spirit of Solidarity, so that, as in Poland, it comes to mean more than brotherhood by occupation. If the stand against Reagan is to be a success, Solidarity can mean nothing less than the stand of all the humane and all the oppressed against all the bosses of our society, be they in industry or government...
...fashioned method. The Core offers courses if five "modes of inquiry:" Literature and Arts, Foreign Cultures, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning and Science. These peculiar names were applied to the areas because, according to the Core's authors, they show the way specialists approach their fields of endeavor...
...work, as ambassador, to diffuse the Indian-Chinese conflict of the early 1960s. Few, if any, of Galbraith's contemporaries, combine his proximity to the central events of the era, and his mastery of the English language; this combination alone would make A Life in Our Times a worthy endeavor. Yet Galbraith has something beyond the advantages of access and writing skill--insight into the human heart. That insight might not extend into the knowledge of his own soul (at least for public consumption), but it is a rare talent, displayed to great advantage in his memoirs, and, consequently, worth...
Still, beyond all this is another laugh entirely, that neither condemns, praises, ridicules nor conspires, but sees into the essential nature of a slip of the tongue and consequently sympathizes. After all, most human endeavor results in a slip of the something-the best-laid plans gone suddenly haywire by natural blunder: the chair, cake or painting that turns out not exactly as one imagined; the kiss or party that falls flat; the life that is not quite what one had in mind. Nothing is ever as dreamed...