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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since then Fisher has led a busy life, getting involved in numerous international conflicts, teaching, writing books, running "The Advocates" and serving on the boards of several international peace foundations. Somehow he hardly seems to fit the mold of the ivory tower intellectual who sits back and theorizes about the world without really living in it. Fisher is an idealist who copes...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Coping With Conflict | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...used to. Until 1969 Harvard had what was called the Undergraduate Council. But it reached a crisis when its politics and influence no longer fit the student mood, which by 1969 had turned very radical, very quickly...

Author: By Michael A. Calabrese, | Title: You Can Save Harvard ... Or You Can Turn the Page | 2/14/1978 | See Source »

This is the grim climate in which Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque are now circling each other like wary knife fighters, probing before attack. Quebecois call the longstanding separatism debate one between head and heart, between reason and sentiment. Surely no two opponents better fit their respective roles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Secession v. Survival | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...cast. They learned a few routines and used them week after week, while the glee club had to memorize-in three days-30 pages or more of new music each production. Quite often the lyrics were in Japanese. Chinese, Hawaiian. Russian or you name it. Our routines had to fit the production. At times we thought we worked in a factory, but as I look back I know I would do it all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...kindness, his wit, the juices of his undammed Life Force flow through Donnelly's performance. Donnelly captures the nuances of the aging process, the time when the patriarchal beard seems to wag the man. Yet throughout, the actor maintains a conversational urbanity that makes the show a fit companion for two of Shaw's pet abominations, brandy and cigars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: G.B.S. Lives | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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