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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling that Carter will not be reelected in 1980 is not based upon a belief that the Republican nominee, most likely Ronald Reagan at this point, will snatch the reins of power away from the President in the general election. This is not considered conceivable today. It is, rather, based upon the threat within the President's own Democratic Party. The scenario has as its main cast of characters Carter and his possible Democratic challengers, California Gov. Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.). One or more of these...

Author: By Steven R. Valentine, | Title: A Look Toward 1980 | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

Although the instrumentation succeeds in Mitchell's newer, freer style, many of the songs on Don Juan's Reckless Daughter do not. The general rule in any style of musical composition seems to be that the less apparent the structure of a work, the more underlying framework and discipline it requires if it is to be interesting, or even approachable. Admittedly, this rule is not universal. But in Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, like Hejira before it, Mitchell is reckless. The album lacks discipline, and suffers...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Angels and Devils | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) last night debated for the first time a 35-page report from five separate faculty committees responsible for evaluating proposals to revise the general education program...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich and Amy B. Mcintosh, S | Title: CUE Debates Curriculum | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and a committee member, said yesterday each of the committee members has interviewed the seven candidates, but the whole committee has not yet met to discuss individual evaluations...

Author: By Andrew S. Davidson, | Title: Search Committee May Pick Police Chief Soon | 2/7/1978 | See Source »

Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, urging young people to retain their idealism: "If you have to choose between being Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, for heaven's sake...

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

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