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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard professors to be granted tenure is "unusual in a faculty that is not growing," Edith M. Stokey, secretary of the K-School, said last week. But recent expansions in the K-School have led to a larger faculty...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Harvard Gives New Chairs To Public Policy Professors | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...first murder is one of the most revolting yet put on film. It put me off my popcorn, and I'm not easily nauseated. Alien operates thereafter on our anticipation of similar blood and guts; the tension is totally mechanical and rather unfair. The movie proves witless, plotless, pointless, spectacularly unoriginal, and surprisingly cruel...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

...startling relish, we think "God damn sadists," and then: "Wait a minute--weren't we cheering this before? Weren't we getting the same kick out of vicariously mauling zombies? Are we any better than this low-life scum? Hmmm..." That's called, "the shock of recognition" and I'm amazed to be writing about it in connection with a film called Dawn of the Dead. It's easily one of the year's best movies horror or otherwise...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: The Beast in All of Us | 7/3/1979 | See Source »

Musica Sacra performances have a luminous clarity, not only in the music but in the text. "I'm a word man," says Westenburg, 47. "Very few people can get as excited about a well-phonated vowel or a well-timed consonant as I can." The group's work does not suffer from the chilly immaculateness of many other early-music groups, especially those of the more-authentic-than-thou persuasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Big Bash for Bach Backers | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...America's wiles, whims and gossip in the London Daily Mail and papers on five continents; of a heart attack; in New York City. By depicting America as a "Rainbow Land" filled with steak-chomping faddists and wastrels, the bumptious Iddon ("Let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") delighted his readers and confirmed their preconceived notions of primitive Yankee ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1979 | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

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