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The woman said, "One has to study and study and study and then still something is left if you've studied enough." Still, her daily translation of missionaries' writings describing narcotic plants of the new world which, she said, she types out "with one finger," seems to have been inspired...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Denizens of Widener | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

The boxes at the top of the chart describe the basic "statutory authorities"-no fewer than 30 of them. They include the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act and the Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Act. Simple enough, until the lines of authority begin to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mess Chart' | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

DIETIES TO THE contrary notwithstanding, great writers are mortal: this is perhaps their greatest failing. When you've finished that last major Hardy novel, dug out the most forgotten Tolstoy short story, there is no more to look forward to. So it is with Jane Austen, the ultimate literary narcotic...

Author: By Jenny Netzer, | Title: Another Austen | 7/3/1975 | See Source »

Anticipation proves to have been the best part of Liv Ullmann's Nora. She is giving a middling performance in a self-indulgent vanity production. Stardom is a powerful narcotic which, like pride, has frequently preceded a fall.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: A Doll's Hearse | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

Wicker's involvement at Attica was anything but narcotic. Shortly after the rebellion began on Sept. 9, 1971, he was asked by prisoners to join a 37-man committee of observers to mediate and publicize their fight for better conditions and safeguard them against reprisal. Five days and 43...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jungle Habitat | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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