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...even imagined marrying this martyr who had somehow survived the death camps. Fifteen years later, the author of Higher Education, Mixed Emotions, Reversed Intentions and the controversial Carnovsky has broken up with his wife. Laura was not an imagined Jewish saint but a selfless political activist. It was a hopeless match that Zuckerman might have novelized under the title "Mixed Intentions." "Hers is the cause of righteousness," he moans. "Yours the art of depiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Million-Dollar Misunderstanding | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

...prospects for pass-fail are not hopeless. Duncan M. Kennedy, professor of Law, said last week that it is possible that the Michelman Committee could include another pass-fail proposal as part of a much more "radical and innovative plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Thanks | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

Despite a few problems here. Mattlin believes he has succeeded in remaining a social, friendly person. "I think people who are disabled often feel it's a hopeless case. They think it's their dominant feature and the only way they'll be identified. That's stupid. It's just not true...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: The Quest for a Fuller Existence | 5/15/1981 | See Source »

...another House production of an opera comes and goes, with flashes of visual and vocal interest but doomed by its own musical limitations. It leaves me wondering what it is that leads talented students year after year to assay the hopeless task of performing major operas in dining halls with hastily convoked orchestras, and I suppose the answer lies in the greatness of the works themselves. But next time perhaps a different approach to undergraduate opera is in order. Some enterprising director ought to yoke together several of the valuable resources available here to amateurs, like the Loeb mainstage...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Singspiel in the Subway | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...employed as domestic workers and on unemployment. On average, Blacks earn only a little more than half of what whites do. And those discrepancies represent the single most important domestic issues America faces. To pretend, as the majority does, that they can be dismissed as too global or too hopeless a concern is lazy and defeatist...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Real Issue | 4/15/1981 | See Source »

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