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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Luciano Pavarotti is the finest operatic tenor since Jussi Bjoerling, if not since the legendary Enrico Caruso. Ah, but you have to hear Pavarotti in concert. When all 300 Ibs. of him were here in our lovely Music Hall, the city fathers were concerned that the stomping of those in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1979 | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

Cormack said that he and Hounsfield have never met and did not collaborate on the project. "I'm not sure if he even read my articles," he added.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nobel Prize Winner Cormack Backs Scanner Despite Cost | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

This book, however, is more than just a reflection of that myth; it is an attempt to shore up its sagging walls. So Mandelbaum revives in over 200 pages a picture of American government that no longer plays even in Peoria. The Vietnam War happened for the rest of us...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Nuke This Book | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

It would be nice if they did, for our own self image if for nothing else. But after Vietnam it is hard to argue that America's foreign policy or military strategy were ever the untainted products of American liberal values. It is a testament to Mandelbaum's naivete that...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Nuke This Book | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

Mandelbaum's work would just be trivial if directed solely at an academic audience. We could then leave it for the far more brutal reviewers of the professional journals. But at least in part, he has aimed it at a general readership. And to the degree that Mandelbaum's picture...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Nuke This Book | 10/13/1979 | See Source »

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