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What was strange, and a bit less heartening, was the solution Associate Dean for Housing Thomas L. Dingman '57 and some other officials came up with. Nothing that both students and the Cambridge fire department had become jaded and unresponsive to fire alarms--perhaps because the College had admitted that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Sound The Alarm | 10/28/1983 | See Source »

The market for home video games may also be approaching a saturation point. Even some incorrigible joystick junkies are getting a bit jaded. Says Rawson Stovall, 11, an Abilene, Texas, sixth-grader who writes a weekly newspaper column for the Universal Press Syndicate under the name Vid Kid: "A lot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games Go Crunch! | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

How does a preacher with murky credentials draw a crowd in jaded New York City? Simple. You field a corps of 2,000 tireless, polite young buttonholers who spend weeks offering people free tickets. Invest $300,000 on publicity for the one-night stand-far more than Billy Graham has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION 1974: Moon in Manhattan | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

If the dream was there, the fire was not. The reprise had a forced quality, as if the participants had been jaded by all the marches and speeches of the intervening two decades. Billed as a "March for Jobs, Peace and Freedom," the gathering marshaled proponents of a bewildering variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Still Have A Dream | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Chicago bills itself as "the city that works," and anyone familiar with the way it works soon realizes that the secret to smooth functioning is regular nourishment-preferably of the green, folding variety. Examples of this approach-questionable and just plain illegal-regularly come to public attention. But last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stings from the Windy City | 8/22/1983 | See Source »

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