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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Casale shouts out "Are we not men?" like the enraged leader of a fanatical sect; the band answers with voices that are indescribable--but if de-evolution does exist, this is what it must sound like. The song moves through a section that sounds like a patriotic anthem, then builds into a frenzied repetition of question-and-response, Casale varying his emphasis in every possible way--"Are WE not MEN?" "ARE we not MEN?" "Are we NOT men?" The chorus mirrors his emphasis each time...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Nothing Like Nihilism | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...peopling an entire mythical world, all these things, yes. Life's dailiness seems somehow inappropriate to such a man as it is to most legendary artists. But his last 14 years are about to receive intense scrutiny by scholars, Wagner lovers and Wagner loathers-who seem to exist in equal numbers -for they were recorded in torrential detail by his second wife Cosima in her diary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home Life at Valhalla | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...should be provided somehow other than through a monopoly government," Lee Nason, a member of the Massachusetts Libertarian Party (MLP), says. For example, Nason believes that government welfare programs should be replaced by a system of private charity. "I think most people want to help the poor. Welfare laws exist because people voted them in. But that method doesn't work. The truly needy are not getting welfare and citizens are getting frustrated and not contributing to charity anymore. The bureaucracy can't handle people as individual cases. How can you trust such important functions to government...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, | Title: The Anarchic Ideal | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Finances vary as well, according to the funds available to departments from outside sources. Assistant professors of Government may receive up to about $1000 to aid research projects. No such discretionary funds exist in the departments of English and Romance Languages and Literatures, for example. Donald A. Stone, chairman of the department of Romance Languages and Literature, says, "The most I have been able to do for my junior faculty is to get them travel money when they present papers at national academic conferences." English junior faculty may apply to the National Endowment for the Humanities to get money...

Author: By Susand D. Chira, | Title: Standing Room Only | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

...intriguing subject to be investigated is the possibility that massive black holes exist at the center of some active galaxies...

Author: By James G. Hers hberg, | Title: Harvard Astronomers Hope New Satellite Will Succeed | 11/9/1978 | See Source »

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