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Opponents of registration criticized the crackdown. "There is not any public tolerance for that kind of massive opening of prosecutions," says Barry Lynn, president of Draft Action. "It's still fundamentally an effort to intimidate." But Lamb says the new steps are manifestly fair: "We owe it to the 10 million who are registered to get that pool as large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Checking Up | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...godlike figure that people hesitated to challenge. And people were so taken by the initial optimism about sex therapy that they did not actually look at the long-term outcome data as carefully as they should have." M & J's defenders stress the debt that all sex therapists owe to their early efforts. "A midget can see farther than a giant if he's standing on the shoulders of a giant," insists Wardell Pomeroy, academic dean at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. "Masters and Johnson are giants in their field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Sexology on the Defensive | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

Black artists have in the past often rejected America. Some, like novelist Richard Wright, turned to communism others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Making Black American Films | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...When Harvard stretches its arms, working class Cambridge feels it in the ribs. That should be easy enough to understand. They just have to talk to us whenever they make their plans. They really owe that much to the people of Cambridge...

Author: By Alfred E. Vellucci, | Title: The View From City Hall | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...whether or not they generate any electricity. Now the utilities claim, among other things, that the contracts are unenforceable and that they were misled by official projections about future energy shortages. Most of the utilities have stopped payments to WPPSS, and by the end of June, 88 utilities will owe it $62.4 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whoops Woes | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

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