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...guidelines to the rich cross-cultural resonances in this drama, ample hints may be found in E.M. Forster's A Passage to India and the works of Paul Bowles and Graham Greene. E,A. Whitehead's play was the most neglected of the year and, conceivably, the finest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Of 1980: Theater | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...ravages of malnutrition and Kampala's almost nightly bouts of gunfire are made worse by the wreck of Mulago Hospital, once the finest in East Africa. In the wards, naked patients lie quivering on blood-stained mattresses or the filth-covered floors. The hospital frequently has no running water and stocks of drugs-known as "nurse's gold" because they so often wind up on the black market-are exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Nation in Ruins | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

Casey has so far declined to talk about what he plans to do as CIA director except to say: "The U.S. has had the finest information-gathering, analytical and scholarly organizations in the world of this kind. I would hope to maintain it and strengthen it." But he has refused to talk about what CIA weak spots he might attack and has not yet read the Reagan transition task force's report that recommends an increase in covert CIA operations and the creation of a central records system shared by the CIA and domestic law-enforcement agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: An Idea Man For CIA | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...Lennons' Manhattan apartment building, the Dakota, crying and praying, singing and decorating the tall iron gates with wreaths and single flowers and memorial banners. CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN, read one. Another recalled the magical invocation of a childhood memory that became one of his finest songs: Strawberry Fields Forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...return of senior co-caption Bob Gaudet, perhaps the ECAC's finest goaltender, will give Dartmouth an emotional lift. The Saugus, Mass., native stretched ligaments in his left knee in a November 24 contest against Clarkson, and has not played since. Despite continued soreness, he is scheduled to start tonight...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Don't Take Dartmouth Lightly | 12/17/1980 | See Source »

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