Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exemplar of the Theater of Ideas is Britain's David Hare, 38. His comedy Pravda, a broadside attack on the political inertia of Fleet Street, co-written with Howard Brenton, has become the hottest ticket in London. He wrote potent screenplays for two current films, Wetherby and Plenty, the latter an adaptation of his 1983 Broadway hit about postwar British decline as reflected in the tormented life of one politically involved woman. Now Hare's A Map of the World, being given its U.S. premiere at the off-Broadway Public Theater, has emerged as the most stimulating new play...
...Carolina's Chapel Hill campus, basketball players must sit out one game for every class cut. Duke University for many years has allowed no appeals by coaches on its strictly academic admissions standards, and Notre Dame combines tough entrance requirements with close monitoring of academic performance. Both of the latter two schools have recorded superb graduation rates for athletes: about 86% of football players for Duke, 97% for Notre Dame. And in the past 35 years Notre Dame has graduated every single one of its basketball players...
...rumor mill in Salt Lake City was abuzz about another, more exotic, possibility. Christensen and Gary Sheets, both Mormon bishops (local church leaders), were involved in publication of a controversial historical document that challenges the authorized version of the origins of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1983 Christensen paid a reported $40,000 to Mark Hofmann, 30, a shadowy, highly successful dealer in Mormon documents, for an 1830 manuscript known as the "White Salamander Letter." Written by a disciple of Mormon Founder Joseph Smith, it says Smith's finding of the Book of Mormon came...
After settling down in Berlin, he decided that his time was being wasted going to school, so he decided to look for work. Choosing between agriculture and photography, he opted for the latter, for it "was the nearest thing to journalism for anyone who found himself without a language...
...latter actions represent an abrupt departure from long-standing University policy. Indeed, they fundamentally contradict explicit principles that have defined Bok's stance since 1979. These actions suggest a breakdown of the president's logic or resolve and place his opposition to divestment in a perilously vulnerable position...