Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...totally unnecessary, as well as repulsive, to print so many pictures from the movie Last Tango [Jan. 22]. Your written description of the movie was more than adequate to inform the public about this film. It is too bad that no one labeled the issue with...
...weep for the hundreds of thousands of innocent lives to be destroyed as a result of the Supreme Court decision on abortion [Jan. 29], for the tremendous waste of human resources, and I weep for my children who will live in a society where property is protected by law but human life is denied such protection...
There is a measure of special pleading in that argument for the embattled Tanaka, whose honeymoon with the voters is clearly over (TIME, Jan. 29). Moreover, Washington feels rather strongly that Tokyo often does not seem to be listening to its problems. Whether true or not, there is no doubt that the diplomatic communications gap comes at an awkward time. It coincides ominously with the threat of a U.S. Japanese economic confrontation, as dramatized by the dollar crisis and the warnings of U.S. Trade Negotiator William D. Eberle that Congress might impose an import surcharge if Japan does...
...Lear, the mad soldier in How I Won the War), earned his best notices interpreting the work of his playwright friends Sean O'Casey and Samuel Beckett; of heart disease; in Manhattan, where he was playing in O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (TIME, Jan...
Died. Ragnar Frisch, 77, Norwegian economist who, with Dr. Jan Tinbergen of The Netherlands, was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics, in 1969; in Oslo. Collaborators since the '30s, Frisch and Tinbergen were honored for developing econometrics, a branch of economics that employs complex mathematical formulas to predict how a change in one of a national economy's variables will affect the others. While Tinbergen applied econometrics to underdeveloped countries, Frisch worked closer to home and came to be regarded as the father of Scandinavia's modern planned economic systems...