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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad-gauged taste. Among them: Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Catch-22, Soul on Ice, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Little Black Sambo and Merchant of Venice run into recurring protests based on suspicions that the former is antiblack, the latter antiSemitic. One school board banned Making It with Mademoiselle, but reversed the decision after finding out it was a how-to pattern book for youngsters hoping to learn dressmaking. Authorities in several school districts have banned the American Heritage Dictionary not only because it contains unacceptable words but because some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Growing Battle of the Books | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Americans are in no danger of being pushed back to the prudery of the 19th century. The typical U.S. newsstand, with its sappy pornutopian reek, is proof enough of that, without even considering prime-time TV. But the latter-day inflamed censor is no laughing matter. One unsettling feature of the current censorial vigilantism is its signs of ugly inflammation. There is, for instance, the cheerily incendiary attitude expressed by the Rev. George A. Zarris, chairman of the Moral Majority in Illinois. Says Zarris: "I would think moral-minded people might object to books that are philosophically alien to what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Growing Battle of the Books | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

Walesa did not personally launch this revolution like some latter-day Spartacus. The strikes themselves made him a leader, just as the country's catastrophic economic condition had engendered the protest. Standing only 5 ft. 7 in., with a drooping reddish-brown mustache and an impish twinkle in his eye, Walesa, 37, speaks the simple, sometimes ungrammatical language of the Polish worker. His education was limited to high school level vocational training; his leadership abilities were honed during years of underground labor organizing-activities that eventually cost him three jobs and landed him in jail on several occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaking the Foundations of Communism | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Jeffrey D. Sachs, assistant professor of Economics travelled with his wife to Cairo and Luxor, touring on donkeys the latter's ancient monuments...

Author: By Hisham I. Youssef, | Title: Faculty, Crew Squad Journey To Egypt for Winter Recess | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...final period opened inauspiciously when Terrier captains Devine and Kilik combined to give B.U. an insurmountable 3-0 lead just 28 seconds after the opening faceoff. Kilik fed Devine from the corner, and the latter poked it by Tate for her second goal of the night...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Women Pucksters Blanked By B.U. In Ice Hockey Season Opener, 4-0 | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

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