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Szasz spoke before an overflow crowd in Pound Hall at the opening session of the weekend symposium on "Crime and Punishment: Restitution, Retribution...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Szasz Says Courts Misuse 'Insane' Label | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

Cheever's great strength has always been his ability to charge both the ordinary and the fanciful with emotion. Falconer is strong on feelings, even though they often overflow the novel's loose structure. Farragut is admittedly a man keenly aware of the banal ironies of his life and of his own sententious observations. Yet at times Cheever imposes them on the reader as if the novel itself were a correctional institution. "We prisoners," says Farragut, "more than any men, have suffered for our sins, we have suffered for the sins of society, and our example should cleanse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Big House | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...United States, Christianity, and education in America are the three greatest enemies of the Indian people, Russell Means, former leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) told an overflow crowed in Science Center A last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Russell Means Calls U.S. Enemy of Indian People | 2/26/1977 | See Source »

Many professors announced yesterday they will change rooms to accommodate the overflow, but Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, simply spent the first lecture of History 1613, "American Political History Since 1970," talking about the jammed Sever 11 classroom where he plans to continue teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mix-Ups Mark Beginning of New Term | 2/8/1977 | See Source »

...number of letters to the editors of newspapers. Said Roger Linscott, associate editor of the Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.: "It's not apathy. People are involved in public affairs, but it's all local, at-home stuff." Town meetings in rural Amherst, N.H., have drawn overflow, boisterous crowds to debate how to limit the community's growth. Hundreds of demonstrators have virtually halted plans to build a nuclear power plant at Seabrook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NEW ENGLAND TURNING INWARD | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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