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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long ago, Kurt Vonnegut predicted that "things are going to get worse and worse and never get better again." That black intuition may account for the compulsive nostalgia that seems to be driving many Americans back into any past that they can contrive to regard as comforting-here the frolicsome joys of World War II. It seems only a matter of time, however, before a corollary to Vonnegut's dictum enforces itself: "Nostalgia is going to get worse and worse . . . " A show like Over Here ought to send audiences screaming out to embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compulsive Nostalgia: OVER HERE | 3/18/1974 | See Source »

...look familiar," Chuck said, narrowing his eyes further, which I would have thought impossible. "Don't he look familiar?" This to David across the aisle. David turned to regard me. He looked like Joan Baez, a pretty boy, only he had black cavities in his front teeth so the effect was ruined when he smiled...

Author: By Bruns H. Grayson, | Title: Volunteers for America | 3/15/1974 | See Source »

...revolutionary movement have decided the best way to handle such a situation is to regard farmers as fair targets. They came and drove our people from our land. We are now saying the same to them. Many white farmers have been killed. And those who aren't have much difficulty sleeping at night. We tell the servants to work during the day and kill them at night. The regime claims 200 deaths, but our reports show casualties upward of 1000: They're so desperate they've had to move Africans into camps to protect the farmers...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: A Rhodesian Remembers | 3/13/1974 | See Source »

...student enrolled this fall in English 166, I would here like to declare my support of Professor Robert Kiely, in regard to the controversy surrounding the final examination in his course. I attended no review section and knew nothing of the exam's format or content before it was given. Had I, however, been informed of the details revealed by Professor Kiely and reported in The Crimson, I would have prepared in much the same manner as I did unaware of the review, and such information would not have altered my answers to the relevant questions. I believe furthermore that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN DEFENSE OF KIELY | 3/8/1974 | See Source »

...Have we not, in the face of universal dilettantism, the consolation of possessing, with regard to pain, a professional competence?" asks the Rumanian philosopher E.M. Cioran, no mean student of suffering himself. The answer is an emphatic yes, as every publisher's list of autobiographies proves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yearning | 3/4/1974 | See Source »

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