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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Xurely you zhest," wrote Nancy May in a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe. "Now 1 have trouble with dzylophone and dzerox, and I still can't pronounce Xiaoping." Eugene Wu, director of Harvard University's Yenching Library, sounded depressed. "I don't even want to think about it," he moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pinyin Perils | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...reforms that grew out of the Second Vatican Council. Then in Latin America he demonstrated a blunt willingness to confront the theology of liberation and define just how priests should, and should not, pursue social justice. Last week he presented his first encyclical, a formal policy-setting letter from the Pope to the church and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Man Cannot Become a Slave | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...authoritative petroleum industry weekly, the Lundberg Letter, offered a grim forecast of just how hard−and how quickly−the U.S. is likely to be hurt by the tightening oil squeeze. Using regular-sales tax data supplied by state governments, the letter warned that by the end of next week there would be a shockingly large shortfall of 8.9% in gasoline supplies. A rush by panicky motorists to gas up would virtually guarantee long, temper-fraying lines reminiscent of the 1973-74 Arab oil-embargo days. Hoarding would simply make the gas shortage worse and further drive up fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deliberating on Oil Decontrol | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...director had tried to make up for the deficiency with a series of 'cutisms' in several numbers, which worked more or less successfully: an enormous letter, for example, out of which popped singers and dancers. Yet as each device in this series of specials progressed, rather than covering any deficiency, it made one even more painfully aware of the repetitious nature of the show, its lack of directionality. Significantly, the largest hand of applause was for a blues number sung without frills in the second act, and yet the biggest laugh was reserved for when another special effect lowered from...

Author: By Simon Goldhill, | Title: An Instructive Evening Of Harvard Theater | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...academics committee of the Student Assembly sent a letter to CUE approving the ERG plan. The letter called for a continued consideration of other options, including linking up with existing programs...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi and William E. Mckibben, S | Title: CUE Debates Foreign Study Propositions | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

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