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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Liems held a public meeting to dispel rumors of a witch hunt. At the meeting, Vincent Li denied doing anything wrong...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: Can A House Divided Stand? | 6/7/1994 | See Source »

...addition, the inclusion of the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) was totally gratuitous. Currently, four of more than 80 HRSFA members are folklore majors. While it is true that individual students have had a part in defining events such as HRSFA's Wyld Hunt and the Coming of the Hour, these are not connected with the Folklore department. Most participants in these events are not folklore students. Not only that, but most folklore students have nothing to do with them either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Article on Folklore and Mythology Perpetuated Untrue stereotypes | 5/27/1994 | See Source »

...French deals with an incident in 1798, and Tenants begins with uprisings in the 1860s; the foreknowledge of history merely colors these works with an agreeable wash of irony. The End of the Hunt seems more tragic because the political failures it describes lead directly to the recent bloody decades, when the balladmakers have given up but the bombers are still at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Ballads' End | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly. All this makes the author's concluding study of Irish history a fine, smoldering narrative, even if he can't provide an end to the hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Ballads' End | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

...officers' hunt begins in earnest at 9:30, after a stop for a bran muffin and coffee. "We always give 'em a little play," says DiAngelo. "But if they're an hour and a half late, they're fair game." Cruising along East 182nd Street, the officers describe the finer points of pursuit. Traditionally, says DiAngelo, truants were predominantly boys, "but girls are cutting more now." Girls, Officer Krajeski says, "are always 'sick' or 'late.' They don't run as much. Solos never run; groups usually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Gotham's New Outrage: Truants! | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

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