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Added to the money distributed last term in Joan, and grants, the council has awarded more than $28.500 to fund a total of 61 projects this year. At least $3500 in additional funds will be distributed this spring to qualified applicants...
During her two-week stay in EI Salvador last summer, writer Joan Didion must have gotten angry too. But she channeled this emotion productively and produced Salvador, an account of her visit to a country that is slowly being destroyed by inbred antagonisms and the misguided efforts of other nations to serve the causes of self-interest and peace at the same time Salvador is short and quickly read Yet Didion's eloquence and the tragic, almost absurd nature of her subject gives this book a weight and power that transcend the limitations imposed by the number of pages. Didion...
...good idea, but it's unrealistic," said Michele Woods, chairman of Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). Woods added that the USG's executive committee considered a similar act last year, "but Dean [of the College Joan] Girgus encouraged moving in a more realistic direction...
...American popular-music industry was having its annual pageant. The program was about to end. Joan Baez walked onstage unannounced. As if she were lost in time, Baez driftingly began to sing Bob Dylan's anthem: "How many roads must a man walk down,/ Before you call him a man .../ The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,/ The answer is blowin' in the wind...
...paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff Editor Walter demons and Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin Bernheimer of Wagnerian opera productions for film and television...