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...impressive victories at the polls, a steady surge in black voter registration and serious debate about whether a black should run for President in 1984. Replacing the old guard of civil rights activists, black mayors are emerging as a powerful force in national politics and public policy. Black leaders marvel that for the first time in a decade, there is a vibrant sense of momentum in the black community. "Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement," says Eddie Williams, president of the Joint Center for Political Studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Protest to Politics | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...beat her. "She giving me some cross answer, I did strike her over her left eye such a blow, as the poor wretch did cry out." He beat his servants too. When one of them denied some domestic misdemeanor, Pepys whipped him so hard that he could only marvel "that such a little boy as he could be able to suffer half so much as he did to maintain a lie ... So to bed, with my arme very weary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And So to Bed | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...credentials. "Do I look like big government?" His appearance as an Albanian Ambassador with Michael Nacht, Associate Professor of Public Policy, was also the hit of the K-School's talent show last month. Winthrop Knowlton, director of the Business and Government Center, voices the general admiration: "I just marvel at the energy with which he can do so much writing and still play such an active role in the workings of the school...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: The Master Builder | 5/18/1983 | See Source »

...concept of serial time gets lost in the translation from page to stage. Though the second act appears to be our own vision rather than Kay's, the play still holds together beautifully. It also surpasses most plays in its offhand observations offering true insight that one can only marvel at the fact that the current production by the Huntington Theatre Company is the first major staging of the play in 45 years...

Author: By Seth A. Tucker, | Title: Keeping Track of Time | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

...still moments, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) can marvel at sun-sets recite poetry and say. "It seems like there's got to be some place without greasers and socs--there's got to be some place with just plain of people." Any by the film's before throwing a punch...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlen, | Title: Growing Pains | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

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