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Reaction to Stigler's remarks was mixed. "I think he was too flippant," said Republican Senator Charles Percy. "He misused the platform he was given." Interviewed on the campaign trail in Casper, Wyo., Reagan did not seem to understand what all the fuss was about. Said he blithely: "He wasn't talking about our program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago Economist George Stigler: Maybe an Incomplete | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...seems strange--at least to one who put away her black cat costume about seven years ago--that there should be such a fuss this year over Halloween...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: Paranoia | 11/4/1982 | See Source »

...Harvard's Core vision is perhaps the one whose logical and philosophical underpinnings are the least obvious to observers. Though the national press did, as Keller notes, focus massive attention on the event as an educational revolution, academics across the country still express confusion as to what exactly the fuss was about Many thought the proposed array of 90 courses as a "core" of basic knowledge was a bit idiosyncratic. Others went further and called it ludicrous. The vast majority of outside observers failed to see the distinction between the Core "revolution" and its sagging predecessor. General Education. And students...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Soft-Core Analysis | 10/30/1982 | See Source »

...Mario Lanza pictures in preparation for the assignment. Still, amid prodigies of too carefully calculated (or miscalculated) charm, Pavarotti plays with a certain ingratiating diffidence. Movies are not where he lives, and he behaves in this one like a mannerly guest, puzzled, and a bit amused by all the fuss they are going to on his behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema: Oct. 11, 1982 | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...both Hebrew and Greek. By the end of his 18-month trek, and Mazursky's film. Phillip seemingly reclaims himself. Alas, he does so by means unrevealed to the movie's audience, who watch him sitting contented in his comfortable Manhattan apartment and wonder exactly what all the fuss was about...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: In a Teapot | 9/29/1982 | See Source »

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