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...capital of Somalia, have renamed streets for him. According to Tass, Indian students have asked their Soviet friends to send them seedlings from Ulyanovsk because "they want to grow trees from the motherland of Lenin." He was the subject of an "international" meeting in Bamako, Mali, and of a quiz show on Radio Sierra Leone. A program called Lenin Soirées is reported to be "greatly popular with televiewers in Brazzaville," while in Paris, "thousands of excursionists" have visited the apartment on Rue Marie-Rose where Lenin once lived. Tass failed to note, however, that the Paris city council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Drive to Make Lenin a Secular Saint | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

...interview drew to a close, David Boorstin, director of Morning, Noon, and Night, dropped by, and the three of us headed for Elsie's where Horovitz challenged his two companions to a game or two of Computer Quiz (he beat us both, but chose the field of Entertainment) and quite naturally making one of the transitions from his life to the theatre, left with Boorstin to see the technical rehearsal of his two plays, which were opening in three days the Charles Playhouse where he was once a propman...

Author: By Laurence Bergeen, | Title: Israel Horovitz: The Radical Play | 3/26/1970 | See Source »

...brief study of Chicanos (Mexican Americans) practically back to the time of the conquistadors. On the scene in the summer of 1968, Reporter Matthiessen gets down the local color, checks out some picket lines, balances his story by interviewing some of the biggest growers, and even manages to quiz a few bystanders. What does the waitress at the local dairy freeze think of it all? No comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suffering for Others | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...answers to this quiz and the winners' names will be published in Tuesday's CRIMSON. All undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe are eligible to win the grand prize; other readers may enter, but their entries will not count. An individual may represent a group of students. Decision of the judges is final...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach and Bruce L. Regan, S | Title: A Wee Mo Weppa: The Crimson Oldies Quiz | 2/6/1970 | See Source »

...world-as-airport, Evelyn-Hilary-Brophy-"I" falls in with a number of atrocities: a TV quiz show whose panel attempts to discover the favorite perversions of its guests; lesbian and youth rebellions; a nun hunt, and a plane crash engineered to secure human organs for transplants. In such an environment, rationalism mutates into absurd rationalization. Like rebellious cancer cells, words metastasize into puns and compound forms that lead destructive lives of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Trinity | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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