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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations as a lot of fuss over "a one-word issue" (the chador, or all-enveloping veil), and admonished students to go back to school and factory workers to stop their agitation. In an emotional appeal for a return to national sanity, Bazargan said, "We have passed a number of mountains, but we still have not reached the promised land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Nation on Trial | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...since instructors and graduate students from writing labs are regularly assigned to phone duty, and the callers pay for their own calls. But at Emporia the service is costing the English department roughly an extra $100 per month, because the university pays for calls made to its toll free number from anywhere in the state of Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...switch to "whoever," but at Emporia, an unidentified voice, presumably a graduate student, told Miller the sentence was correct as it stood. The quickest and surest correct answers to all three questions were provided by Little Rock's Montgomery, who mans his hot line during morning hours. His number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...very worried until I called the number and got an answer from Harvard Food Services," Raymond T. Chung '82 who was separated from his rooming group and assigned to a single in North House, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Receive House Assignments | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

...them would be 'Send me back to the 40s and the studio system and let me direct movies."' Carpenter's cunning proficiency, the workman like spit and polish of his low budget productions and his obvious debt to and affection for earlier movie-makers have tempted a number of critics to consider him a clever contemporary heir to several 40s and 50s directors whose exciting grade-B films have been sauvely generalized under the label film noir. Just now, with the success of Halloween, more careful critics are insisting that Carpenter is not as good as all that...

Author: By Larry Shapiro, | Title: Nuts and Jolts | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

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