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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Dean Rosovsky's idea of what makes a well-educated person will produce pompous graduates who know a little about everything and a lot about nothing. Their degrees will be mere status symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...perhaps they don't understand) offering genuine majority rule. Here are those moderate leaders on the inside who are willing to join with him. Here are these people on the outside whom we see as Communists (because they are taking Soviet aid). So let's cast our lot with the Salisbury talkers, because, after all, they represent moderation, stability and respect for white rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: U.S. Policy Under Attack | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Vidal, author, reflecting on his craft: "Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare had perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about five and Samuel Beckett one-and perhaps a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 17, 1978 | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...better part of the day. Says Gale Dixon, 32, a part-time actress and singer who once had 20/800 vision: "When I first started, the world was totally out of focus. Now I get up in the morning and can see fairly well. It gives me a lot of freedom." Critics do not deny that limited improvements may indeed occur, but they point out that they are at best temporary, and that the cornea will eventually spring back to its old shape. They also worry that the treatment, especially in the hands of less skilled practitioners, can cause permanent astigmatism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Eye Braces? | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Even so, no TV show or movie, including this one, can make an audience feel what it was like to be a Jew caught in the Holocaust: only those who were there can ever know. But Holocaust does a lot to increase our comprehension of its unfathomable subject. As one character says on her way to the gas chamber, "It's so hard to remember that we're individual people." Holocaust attaches human faces to the inhuman statistics of mass murder. It envelops the audience in grief and suffering, and long after the show has ended, the pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Reliving the Nazi Nightmare | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

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