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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...husky voice snakes around the lyrics. But the record turns dark in mood, and heavy. This is not to say that it takes on real weight, however, only that it seems to be buckling under the pull of some nonspecific gravity. A woman who can work up a fail-safe two-line recipe for romantic bliss ("Make him some catfish/ Fry it up in bed") has humor to spare and no further need to flash her credentials for high seriousness. The same notion remains: if the next record comes faster, it ought to be even better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Roundup at the Rock Corral | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

...majority opinion in all but one respects publicly funded Christmas decorations are not merely a "familiar, unthreatening fixture." They too constitute a dangerous excursion by government over the church-state wall. Those who favor publicly funded Christmas decorations no doubt have the best of intentions; sadly, though, they fail to see the consequences...

Author: By Nicholas S. Wurf, | Title: A Real Threat | 12/13/1984 | See Source »

...widespread ignorance about human rights issues both among the general population and among the supposedly informed Harvard community. While some simply pretend that problems do not exist, others claim that, because of the extent of the problem, any act they take would be in vain. Yet many fail to realize that by failing to take action on the issue, they all but condone the human rights violations occuring around them...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...addition HRAI is appealing for the release of Anatoly Koryagin, a Soviet psychiatrist, who has been sentenced to 12 years in fail and internal exile for publicly criticizing the political use of psychiatry in the Soviet Union. He has been officially stripped of his psychiatric degree, physically beaten, and is now unable to chew or swallow food as a result of a hunger strike which he initiated in January of 1983 protesting his arrest...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

Most of the proposals are aimed at boosting the allure of Dudley House, the campus center for the advising and counseling of students who either decline or fail to qualify for rooms in the 12 traditional Houses...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Dudley May Offer Answer to Crowding | 12/11/1984 | See Source »

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