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...editors of The New Republic in support of such invasion is that Arab oil states deploy their financial power "capriciously, adversely affecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people ...." This, of course, is nonsense, quite unworthy of the editorial page of what used to be one of the finest organs for sanity in American life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY HUNCH | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

...Mozart's Magic Flute at Lowell House will be the highlight of the weekend. It's an ambitious project for a non-professional group, but the cast is generally excellent and well prepared. It's also a rare chance to hear a performance in one of Harvard's acoustically finest halls, the Lowell House Dining Hall...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: MUSIC | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

...shrugs. A female Jehovah in love with Satan is a reversal with more satiric point than many of the Romantics were able to suggest--one of LaZebnik's most inspired ideas. But except for few brief stretches--as when a Keystone Cop enters and rat-tat-tats the finest...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Slightly Foxed | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

Outraged Blacks. As a result, Daley has had to run hard for the first time. His course has been at times erratic. He has stoutly defended the city's public schools as among the finest in the country, despite persuasive studies to the contrary. He unnecessarily reaffirmed his infamous "shoot to kill" order to police, which outraged blacks and many others just as it did when it was first issued during the riots that followed Martin Luther King's death in 1968. He rather crudely declared at a press conference that his mother once advised him to reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICAGO: Challenging Hizzoner | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...ladies' beauty and studying how to sneak love letters to them. Irony outraces irony, and the jollity is compounded by a covey of curates, schoolmasters and clowns. The R.S.C. invests the evening with lyricism, ardor and joy. In a superbly articulated performance (no surprise from one of the finest actors alive), Ian Richardson as Berowne sums up Shakespeare's conviction that all Utopian dreams run afoul of human needs, desires and nature, and that life is the tutor of words, not words the master of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: All in Aught | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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