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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most organized, best-financed, toughest opposition he's ever had." Businessmen have raised $200,000 primarily for radio and TV ads. Black leaders have conducted a registration drive that signed up about 100,000 new voters. Says the Rev. William Gray III, a Baptist clergyman: "Black people are mad-mad as the dickens. Rizzo has gone from being a subtle racist to an overt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rizzo Again | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

HOLY CROSS at BROWN--Talk about serious. The Crusaders got destroyed by Brown last year, 44-13. This year, they're not only stomping mad, they're undefeated. Reports of Brown's death were greatly exaggerated, but let's face it--Holy Cross is tough. Holy Cross 28, Brown...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Not a 'Dear John' Letter | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

Student boycott organizers were dismayed at this apparent backtracking by the University. William G. Mayer '79 summed it up by saying, "I'm mad as hell that they're playing this game that they interpret everything a second time in a kind of double-fink...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: A Definite 'Maybe' | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

...already thrilled audiences in more than half a dozen U.S. cities. Last week at New York City's Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra showed off Alice as a fantastical and captivating musical Wonderland, a patchwork of warm, catchy tunes and blaring dissonances as crazily charming as the Mad Hatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestrated Lewis Carroll | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...keeping with the mad-tea-party spirit, the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy plays Alice with a kind of Jabberwocky joy. But it is Hendricks, in the bravura role that she premiered, who stirs audiences to stand up and cheer at every performance. She has a pure but commanding voice that readily conquers Del Tredici's difficult but dazzling octave jumps, enormous range and unbelievable strings of high notes. Alice lovers can look forward to a planned recording of Final Alice with Hendricks - and, despite the title, to at least one more Alice from Del Tredici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestrated Lewis Carroll | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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