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This spring, as usual, assorted elders have been capped, gowned and summoned to daises across the U.S. to try to say something wise, important or at least heartfelt to the year's 1.3 million new college graduates. Their collective mood was somber, reflecting anxiety over the arms race, education and the Government's new budget. Some speakers used the campus rostrum for political oratory. One university, Fairleigh Dickinson in Rutherford, N.J., chose not to have a speaker. Instead the students called in Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, creator of bebop, and let him play his songs Ow and Groovin...
...subjects provoke stronger feelings or arouse a wider spectrum of social and political attitudes than abortion. The TIME correspondents assigned to this week's cover story were faced with the challenge of reporting opposing viewpoints that are equally idealistic and heartfelt. Says Los Angeles Correspondent Diane Coutu: "Perhaps more than any other story, this one reminded me that the most difficult moral choices are seldom ones between good and evil, but almost always between good and the lesser good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during...
...heartfelt doubts and objections aroused by Reagan's program, the President's landslide election victory and the speed and vigor with which his aides have put together a comprehensive budget program have transformed the political climate. There will be loud and bruising fights, but they will not be about whether to cut spending, nor even primarily how deeply to cut, but simply where...
...should not view the play as a definitive version of events; that's not what it claims to be. What it does represent is one student's perspective on a revolutionary transformation--an earnest and heartfelt attempt to establish an empathy with the atmosphere, emotion, and motivation of the time. It falls short in capturing these personal dimensions...
...Whatever might be hot or sweet is buried in the cool shade of 13 pages devoted to Violet's family tree. Fervor, by Powell's standards is reserved for Siamese cats and the young couple's cook, a Mrs. Clara Warville, who in a passage as heartfelt as any in the book, is recalled as "an admirable exponent of the art at its simple English best...