Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spokesman for Khomeini said the Ayatullah will not return until Thursday so that the welcome could be bigger. Sources here said the government decided to let Khomeini return because it would be impossible to keep the popular religious leader out and the airports closed for a long period of time...
...confirmed Stanley's opinion. "Peter's done very well here, and he's a very popular teacher; but we don't have any appointments--we have enough American history professors," he said...
...Harvard's most popular professors, Peter W. Stanley, lecturer in History, probably will leave Harvard at the end of this year because he has not received a tenured appointment...
...National Council meeting reached agreement on the most important issues on its agenda early on. The relatively moderate Yasser Arafat remains the dominant figure within the P.L.O., although the role of George Habash and his radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine will be somewhat expanded. Delegates took the considerable step of agreeing to adopt a joint political program. They rejected the Camp David plan for creating an autonomous "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza, and they insisted that the P.L.O. and not King Hussein should represent the Palestinians. Hussein accepted both these points, bringing himself into closer...
...problems of an unnatural nature, Lem writes that "if one considers 'artificial' to be that which is shaped by an active Intelligence, then the entire Universe that surrounds us is already artificial. " With such delightful leaps of the imagination, Lem outdistances nearly all of the most popular star trekkers. He is the Borges of scientific culture, whose "mortal engines" promise that mystery will not end with the last flesh-and-blood human. Reading A Perfect Vacuum, one can easily imagine banks of Lemian cybernoids arguing whether man exists and how many science-fiction writers could...