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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second, on the night of the dance, summer school residents of Stoughton Hall next to Phillips Brooks House yelled "faggots" and "queers" throughout the evening to people attending the dance. Fortunately, they chose no to take their aggression any further than this, and gay people can generally pass off such taunts as ignorance of fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gays at Harvard | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

...lesbian rights movement will know that destroyed flyers and ignorant taunts are par for the course. Yet it is nevertheless somewhat amazing that Harvard Students, many of whom arrive fresh from superior early education and intelligent, liberal parents, would respond in the crude manner of the residents of Stoughton Hall. Likewise, it is amazing that Cambridge, the center, some say, of liberal education and general enlightment should respond with the tearing down of signs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gays at Harvard | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

...McClellan starts the morning with a dawn breakfast followed by car-pool duty to get the children to school, works all day with Austin's city manager and six-member council, and hurries home to cook dinner for her children (she is a divorcee). She then returns to city hall for more paper work. Since taking office in 1977, McClellan has got voter approval of bond issues totaling $141 million for remodeling the city and continuing Austin's participation in a nuclear-power venture. She is persuasive: she won the nuclear-power bond issue by 53% just ten days after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 50 Faces for America's Future | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...have to remember every cue, every song, every lyric. If it's no good, you can't do it again. That can't happen to a movie actor. The director says, 'Come in,' and you walk in. If you stay out in the hall, you're a bad actor. If you walk in, you're a good actor. The director says, 'Sit down,' and you sit down. It's nice to be able to sit down anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Going in Style with George Burns | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Also under construction is an ambitious cultural center that will contain a 10,000-volume library, a concert hall for 1,200, two 250-seat movie theaters and even a discothèque. Already scheduled are performances by the Bolshoi and Kirov ballet companies and by the Beryozhka folk dancers. One bit of bad news for devotees of the high life: there will be no beer halls like the popular one in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All the Comforts of Home | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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