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...truth seeker: doubt. One hundred and fifty years ago Charles Lamb observed that credulity was the child's strength but the adult's weakness. That observation is even more valid today, when shoddy or ignorant research is used to lend legitimacy to the most extravagant tenets of the psychic movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boom Times on the Psychic Frontier | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

GRANDFATHER'S IMPOSITION tries desperately to be interesting. It bombards the audience with passion, adventure, crime and comedy--all in a comfortable domestic setting designed to lend an air of familiarity to the bizarre events. The central character is so colorful that he almost hurts your eyes, and the violent reactions he provokes could furnish enough melodrama for at least three full-length plays...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Moral Melodrama | 3/2/1974 | See Source »

...realistic legislative proposals, designed to increase the amount of federally-insured funds available to undergraduates. The so-called Sloan Report urges a gradual repayment plan, a long-term loan system, and a lower cut-off level for federal interest benefits. Rapidly rising tuition and room and board fees lend support to these suggestions and emphasize the absolute impracticality and inequity of loan cut-backs proposed by the Nixon administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government Loan Squeeze | 2/26/1974 | See Source »

...interest equalization tax" when they buy foreign stocks. In addition, U.S. corporations are freed from a complicated set of limits on their foreign investments, and U.S. banks will no longer be asked to abide by voluntary Federal Reserve Board guidelines on the amount of money that they can lend abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL: A Step Toward Freedom | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...admissions office. When an important component of the student body drops 25 per cent in size the University, not undergraduates, is to be blamed. Ironically, admissions had engineered a 100 per cent increase in the number of black enrollees when there were very few black undergraduates around to lend assistance with recruiting...

Author: By Keith Butler, | Title: Harvard's Black Admissions | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

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