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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Steven C. Fenichell '77, an English major in Option III, said last week that financial reasons are cited for limiting English C and Option III, but he thinks the department is "interested in making the process selective for its own sake...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The New Yorker Model: Writing to Please Harvard | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...sake of Mexico, let's hope President-elect Lopez Portillo, unlike Echeverria, spends less time and energy pouting about the land he doesn't have and more time and energy industrializing his already present human and natural resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 8, 1976 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...sports at Pepperdine University in southern California, featuring stars such as ABC's Lynda (Wonder Woman) Carter, NBC's Ben (Gemini Man) Murphy and CBS's Telly (Kojak) Savalas. In all, 24 prime-time principals channeled their energies into swimming, running and biking-all for the sake of a Nov. 13 ABC special titled Battle of the Network Stars. The winner on the playing fields of Pepperdine, as on the tube this season, was ABC, whose team members walked off with $20,000 in prize money apiece-as well as a few regrets. Farrah Fawcett Majors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 8, 1976 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

...real world by now, after their brief moment in the polling place. Although many may not realize it, it was for them that great forces moved in the campaign. The candidates, the workers, the staff, the reporters--all devoted themselves in an insane ordeal spanning months for the sake of fifteen minutes of time in a curtained booth. After the intensity of commitment to that ordeal by the candidates and their followers, perhaps the voters should have suspected, more than they did, that something important was at stake...

Author: By Parker C. Folse, | Title: The Long Goodbye | 11/6/1976 | See Source »

...worst failing of this production is that it violates Oscar Wilde's own "art for art's sake" aesthetic. "In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing," Gwendolen asserts at one point. In this version of Wilde's farce, the latter remains a poor subsitute for the former...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Earnestness Without Style; 'I Speak, Therefore I Am' | 11/4/1976 | See Source »

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