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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Near North Side church with his resounding voice, as the late Dylan Thomas might if he were reading Yeats, or Richard Burton would if playing Hamlet. Like the poet Thomas, Davies grew up in Swansea, Wales. He claims that Burton patterned his style on Welsh preachers, the only regular actors on display during his youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...smorgasbord of stereotypes completed the regular line-up. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), the very Scottish chief engineer, spent his time keeping the warp engines, deflector shields and other technological marvels of the ship in working order. On the bridge, Uhura (Michelle Nichols), the Swahili communications officer, handled the subspace radio, pushed buttons and uttered memorable lines like "There's no response, sir" and "I'm afraid, Captain...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Cheap Trek? | 12/14/1979 | See Source »

During their two stretches of solid play, the cagers displayed accurate shooting inside and came up with several steals off of an effective man-to-man full court press. Neither team bothered with much defense, relying instead on the fairly regular flow of turnovers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Crimson Cagers Dump Brandeis, 95-80; Sloppy Play Dominates Harvard Victory | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

...civil rights of blacks in Mississippi. After majoring in international affairs at Princeton, young Hodding took over the family's Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Miss. He helped organize a biracial Democratic Party in Mississippi and led its successful fight to unseat the all-white regular delegation at the 1968 National Convention. He joined Jimmy Carter's campaign early in 1976 and now jokes: "I was chosen for this job either because I was a small-town editor, I was a brilliant writer, or I worked for Jimmy Carter. Obviously it was because I worked for Jimmy Carter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: A Diplomat on the Podium | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

After graduating from Radcliffe in 1963, Goodman worked as a Newsweek researcher and later a Detroit Free Press reporter before joining the Globe as a feature writer in 1967. The Globe let her write a few opinion pieces and in 1972 made her a regular columnist, first in the Living section and then on the editorial page. Says Anne Wyman, the Globe's editorial-page editor: "At the beginning, I thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Private Affairs | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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