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...wildly asserts a parallel with Ionesco and the Theater of the Absurd...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: The Word is Absurd | 5/4/1988 | See Source »

...Jackson slowly moderates his rhetoric, there is a tendency to portray him as merely a flamboyant heir to Hubert Humphrey's free-spending domestic liberalism. There is truth to this contention, but there is also a clear parallel to another political leader: Ronald Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Jesse Seriously | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

Every year around this time, the spring skies over Panama darken regularly with rumors of rain. A few drops usually fall, but the downpour that would ease the stifling 90 degrees heat never comes. To frustrated Panamanians, the weather this year provides a striking parallel to the political crisis that grips their country. Just as they long for rain, citizens yearn for the departure of General Manuel Antonio Noriega. But while Noriega faces a relentless combination of economic woes and widespread unrest, he still clings to power. Like the seemingly imminent rain, he stubbornly refuses to fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama The General Strikes Back | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...Sarah Lawrence's Krupat starts his American Lit students with parallel readings in Genesis and Iroquois creation stories (which he sees as part of a neglected oral literary tradition). He dropped selections from William Faulkner in favor of Michael Gold's Jews Without Money, a tale of turn-of-the- century Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Canons Under Fire | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

...experiences dealing with students' reactions to controversial subject matter closely parallel those of many other professors who teach in non-traditional disciplines. Interviews with instructors this week revealed that the teaching of sensitive issues in the college classroom-and the question of student input--are problems that do not lend themselves to a single solution...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Sensitive Issues: A Classroom Dilemma | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

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