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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fraternity life provides psychological benefits as well. Louis Menyhert, president of Psi Upsilon at New York University, points out that "N.Y.U. these days is an antiseptic place where people come for classes and go home." At a small, closely-knit fraternity house, he believes, there is a better opportunity to build friendships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fraternity Redux | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

Nowadays the Harvard Employees Organizing Committee is pretty well settled into a routine of unionizing activity--a routine that revolves around the Monday night meetings of its core committee, a close-knit group of about 20 that plans general strategy. After its meetings, most of the core committee repairs for a late dinner to Cardell's, an old steak-and-beer place on Brattle Street...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Building a Cause in the Office | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

Though their common fate-and the prison policy of segregating them from all other prisoners-has knit the men of death row into something of a fraternity, racial antagonism remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Living on Death Row | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Despite his fire-eating anti-Israel rhetoric, Arafat in private is quiet, almost self-effacing. He seldom talks about himself or his past life, largely, it seems, because he wants to avoid creating a personality cult. Within Al Fatah and the P.L.O., he has no close-knit circle of advisers or a kitchen cabinet. At staff meetings he solicits opinions from everyone, picking and choosing from the advice given him. Compared with Egypt's expansive President Sadat or even with the zealous George Habash, Arafat has little in the way of charisma, but he can inspire devotion nonetheless. In part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Palestinians Become a Power | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...number and has other meanings. If I were making it up I couldn't possibly write all that." What this explanation may mean is anyone's guess, but it hardly matters. As they stand, Darboven's flights of orthographical gibberish are as interesting as watching someone knit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eight Cool Contemporaries | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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