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...demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure, it's embarrassing. I never read the bill for spelling." Said Herbert: "I give the senate a B-minus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Back to Basics | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...second document was "A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty Between Egypt and Israel." Except on one critical point left unresolved, the status of Israeli settlements in the occupied Sinai, it was even more precise and explicit. It called for an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty to be signed within three months, major Israeli withdrawals within three to nine months after that, the normalization of all relationships between the two countries within a year and complete Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory within three years. Though the two agreements were not contingent upon each other, the aim was clear: through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Sudden Vision of Peace | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

Unfortunately the film's screenplay could have used a little Chekhov-or Gorki-as well. Too many lines are overly explicit ("We're like children forgotten in the nursery of a house on fire"); others recall the parody of Woody Allen's Love and Death ("You are choked by boredom"). Mikhalkov could also use some of Renoir's toughness of mind and poetic genius. The Rules of the Game dared to dissect contemporary France; A Slave of Love is essentially a safe nostalgia piece. Where Renoir merged theme, style and narrative into a seamless whole, Mikhalkov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Silent Comedy | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...just a ballpark figure," he warns, stressing that the study is aimed mainly at determining fiscal effects of the increased teaching load that could result from the Core's implementation. Still, he notes that some courses--mostly introductory courses in the Natural Sciences "clearly meet the Faculty's relatively explicit criteria." Others, including offerings in the Humanities on film and related topics, "clearly don't make it," he says. After concluding his evaluation of courses now under Gen Ed, Wilcox will begin a study of departmental coureses that might also meet the Core requirements...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Farewell to Gen Ed | 9/1/1978 | See Source »

Ignorance leads to tragedy. Melchior (Boyd Gaines), an iconoclast-charmer, imparts some explicit sexual information to his friend, the ironically self-deprecating Moritz (Richard Frank). Flunking, engulfed in guilt, though innocent of sin, Moritz commits suicide. Avid for love, woefully unprepared by her mother (Rebecca Guy), Wendla (Kathryn Dowling) becomes pregnant by Melchior and dies during an abortion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Young Blood | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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