Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ruler Nicolae Ceauşescu last week was in the middle of a 17-day, eight-nation tour of Africa and the Middle East. One thing he surely spent little worrying about was his political base back home. In his absence there was hardly an important area of national life that was not watched over by some relative he had placed in a top position over the years...
...present, there are some 439 federal agencies with jurisdiction over some part of university life. Last year 26% of Harvard's total budget (or $79 million) came from the Federal Government. Also: 50% of M.I.T.'s ($125 million), 46% of Princeton's ($66 million), 4.1% of Oberlin's ($1 million), and 17% ($81 million) of the University of Michigan's. U.S. higher education cannot survive without Government money, but whoever pays the piper often gets to call the tune. Despite the best of intentions, Government clout in academia has grown, along with the red tape necessary to comply with...
...WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY...
...earlier times, the question posed by this play's title would never have arisen. Life was God's, to give and to take. But medical technology's present ability to sustain inert human remnants poses a fresh moral dilemma. Between medical authority and an individual's right to decide his own fate, who plays...
...years ago," he says, "and there was a bit in which I was lying upside down, unconscious in a sailboat. The shot came up later on when I was watching the rushes and I thought. 'God! That's Dustin Hoffman!' " Conti also finds himself in odd positions in Whose Life Is It Any way?, but not for a second does the audience doubt whom it is seeing. The play belongs to Conti, and if Dustin Hoffman is not careful, he may some day be identified as the American Tom Conti...