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...Boston there are enough swamis for a softball team. Harvey Cox, Gallagher Professor of Divinity, said in his book Turning East that Cambridge is so full of holy men it should be rechristened the "Benares-on-the-Charles." Just walking through the Square you can hear an impassioned plea for a peculiar form of world peace from a member of the Unification Church, sample being "processed" by Scientology aficionados, and glance at a poster asking "have you seen the Lenticular Clouds today?" which discusses the conscious, playful clouds that have "been appearing" lately. If you head for a little respite...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Tour of 'Benares on the Charles' | 5/14/1980 | See Source »

...women from FLAG regarded their mission as personal diplomacy, a people-to-people plea for help. Said Mrs. Rosen: "We are not asking for diplomatic or economic sanctions. Everyone is talking hostage, hostage, hostage. But they are people. We are trying to get back to the human factor." The women hoped, said Mrs. Kennedy, that the botched rescue attempt would "not deter America's allies from continuing to support the U.S. in its actions against Iran." At week's end, they carried that message to Luxembourg, where the leaders of the European Community met to consider further joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: For the Families, a New Concern | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

Powers' letter agrees with the union leaflet's plea for a "healthy atmosphere" for negotiation, but says such a climate will not result "from the distribution of unauthorized and untrue statements...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Powers Responds to Union's Criticism | 5/2/1980 | See Source »

...added significantly, "the state should not be selling matches." He denounced "ultra-leftism" and the inefficiency, incompetence and petty corruption that have plagued various ministries. Next day he sacked three Cabinet ministers and, in a subsequent shuffle, appointed five whites to the Cabinet. He delivered an impassioned plea for former Portuguese settlers, now living elsewhere in Africa, to return to Mozambique and promised special business incentives for them if they did so. Even before that, Machel had been host to a delegation representing 23 multinational companies. Said he: "There is a place in our country for private external investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Mozambique Turns to the West | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...concept reappears on Get Happy!! in "B Movie," this time with a meaner, more controlled vocal; but the style, the emotion, is successfully rendered in "Riot Act." Hanging on every heavy, condemnatory thump of Pete Thomas's drum as he is led into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea on behalf of emotion to a cold, insolent spouse. Elvis climaxes musically by extending the verse just short of the chorus, tension building as he fights to squeeze more and more lines into the measures until he rams against the downbeat and spills over, sobbing, into the refrain (which, incidentally...

Author: By D. BRUCE Edelstein, | Title: Abyss and Costello | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

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