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Confession humanizes and invalidates the image game they all played on the street, so that people can get close together. No matter whose tale is being told, all the players pantomime the story, react, peer, gasp or laugh, so the story teller seems still less alone...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: The Theatregoer The Concept At the Loeb last weekend | 10/7/1969 | See Source »

...going to make something out of that too? And so it goes. In any case, you can be sure that your freshman roommate will call your entire existence into question, and by the end of your freshman year-but definitely not before-you will be well rid of him. Gasp. Close parenthesis...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: The Year of the Freshman: an annual social event thrown for 1200 selected students, with lifelong repercussions | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...local citizens' committee to stop air pollution caused by city buses." The students were only too familiar with the clouds of black smoke and particles emitted by D.C. Transit System buses, and when the assignment was finished, eight of them put their lessons to work by founding GASP (Greater Washington Alliance to Stop Pollution). Students at Western Washington State College are engaged in a long-range study aimed at keeping healthy lakes from being poisoned by increasing population, radioactive fallout and disturbances of currents, temperature and oxygen content. At Georgia Tech, 14 student architects have developed an award-winning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecology: The Young Eco-Activists | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...audience. Bethell dwells on appearances, knowing what will excite his readers. The SDS flag flies out a University Hall window; Chase Peterson eats lunch at the Tasty (fine man!); Dean Ford's 4:30 p.m. warning is met with cries of "All right, Dean Ford"; four picture show (gasp) litter all over the floor of the empty building after the bust. The inflammatory quote. "Bullshit," shouted a girl. "What the fuck do you know about it?" said a girl. (A girl!) "Fuck Harvard." (Harvard...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Alumni Bulletin | 5/15/1969 | See Source »

Louis Wolfson, who a decade ago controlled a $400 million industrial empire, accepted a painful verdict last week. Although a last-gasp technical appeal from a denial of a motion for a new trial is still pending in the case, the 57-year-old Miami Beach multimillionaire reported to Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Fla., to begin serving a one-year prison sentence for illegally selling unregistered stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: Exit for Wolfson | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

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