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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lesson that he preaches with cloying sobriety and lengthy illustration. Spevlin employs all manner of props and partners (including a rather amiable snake) to slake her desires, but she pays for it all in the end. She is imprisoned in a windowless room (Sartre will surely be pleased to know that Damiano has dipped into No Exit). Her only companion is a jabbering paranoid who is too thoroughly spaced out to respond to her pleas and advances. Damiano's heavy moral is that Georgina will have to spend eternity in a frenzy of frustration. Not quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

The Jesuits rose to eminence in the two centuries that followed Ignatius' death. Seeking to be the consciences of kings, they served as confessors to every French King from Henry III to Louis XV. In 16th and 17th century China, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci and his successors labored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

A year later, she was informed that he was missing on a flight from Japan to Korea. In 1953, she received his death certificate from the Defense Department. The following year, Jack Downey appeared on trial in China as the "archcriminal of all U.S. prisoners." He was sentenced to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: Twenty Years in China | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Court of Common Pleas Judge D. Donald Jamieson issued an injunction to end the walkout. When the teachers ignored him, the confrontation got rougher. Some 317 teachers were arrested for picketing and will be arraigned for trial next week. Union Negotiators Frank Sullivan and John Ryan were jailed for contempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: End of a Strike | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

INSTEAD, WE STUDIED for places at medical schools and law schools, places that really didn't exist for women. At the time there was no real pressure to admit more women to the institutions that we sought to make our graduate schools. The Committee on the Status of Women at...

Author: By Susan G. Cole, | Title: "If We Can't Fix the Plumbing, We Can't Stay in Here" | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

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