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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might agree that certain behavior makes one person more undesirable than another, but how do we ensure that age or skin color or national origin or harmless mannerisms will not also become the basis for distinguishing the undesirable from the desirable? How do we ensure, in short, that the police do not become the agents of neighborhood bigotry...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: When the Tough Get Going | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Harvard Lampoon editor Andrew C. Pforzheimer '83-'84 yesterday called the joke "amusing and harmless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phoney Phones | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...this mentality certainly a harmless one--that the nation's college bands have directed their efforts in recent years. Stories abound of university bands being banned from television performances after they spelled out massive profanities or formed gigantic phalluses on the nation's football fields. In years past, such activities were usually funny, and a good time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question Of Taste | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...given in two or three injections at monthly intervals, is effective for at least two years and has no side effects. Its safety, he says, is due to the fact that the vaccine is made from a virus that has been stripped of its DNA core and thereby rendered harmless. Skinner estimates, however, that it will be at least two years before the vaccine is thoroughly tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Help Is Coming for Herpes | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

...Walter Lippmann, Pablo Picasso), and held an array of academic titles (Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford) and cultural posts (founding chairman of the Independent Television Authority). "K," as chums called him, was self-deprecating in a 1974 autobiography: "My whole life might be described as one long, harmless confidence trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 30, 1983 | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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