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...only glory, but to some degree more power. It would necessarily be a silent vote, by a great institution, for him, condoning the dangerous threat he increasingly poses to our Republic and to peace and justice in the whole world. I urge you to call it off. William E. Rowley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Call It Off | 6/4/1985 | See Source »

...differentiate the characters as sharply as possible, giving each a few eccentricities pronounced enough for easy reference. The servants in particular benefit from the chance to present more than awkward carbon copies of the principals: John Bottoms as Mr. Snake displays: diabolical shuffle and sneer, while the faithful retainer Rowley (Richard Spore) has been so sharply characterized--his hands, legs, voice and cane tremble constantly--that at times he is barely comprehensible...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Scandalous Fun | 5/27/1983 | See Source »

...make their perpetrators seem almost dignified in their raffishness. But forgeries have regularly caused more than empty pockets and red faces. One cut short a poetic career full of brilliant promise. In the 1760s, Thomas Chatterton, a teen-ager from Bristol, England, invented a 15th century monk called Thomas Rowley and wrote medieval-looking manuscripts of inspired poetry under the name. He had hoped to demonstrate his skills under a false identity and then reveal himself as the author when the public's attention was won. Before that could happen, the ruse was detected and the merits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fakes That Have Skewed History | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...contamination is limited because dioxin is coming not from its plant but from "normal combustion" sources, such as natural fires and furnaces. The health risks, says Dow, have been exaggerated. "You would have to eat more than 25 tons of fish per year," contended Company Spokeswoman Sarah Rowley, "to reach a level of dioxin that has been shown to cause cancer in animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Stories and Empty Offices | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...these three disciplines has begun to converge. The mood was electric when 400 scientists gathered last month at the University of Chicago for the Bristol-Myers Symposium on Cancer Research. Researchers reeled off findings that the journals have not been able to keep up with. Said Conference Chairman Janet Rowley, a geneticist at the University of Chicago: "Ten years ago, few of us had any notion the progress would be so rapid, even explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Advances in the War on Cancer | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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