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Excluding these questions from the field of economics--supposedly for the sake of academic rigor--leaves some important questions about the capitalist system unanswered. At best it seems somewhat silly, and at worst, it is suspicious ideologically to discourage an approach--in this case an anti-capitalist one--merely because so far it has not answered the important questions it has asked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenure for Bowles | 2/22/1973 | See Source »

...director of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as M16, has always been referred to by his in-the-know colleagues as "C." The practice is said to date back to the department's first director, Sir Mansfield Gumming, who insisted on it for the sake of anonymity. Sir Mansfield, who died in 1923, passed the initial on to his successors. To the British press, on the other hand, the director of M16 is usually referred to as "M"-as in the James Bond thrillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: C's Busted Cover | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

There has always been a disconcerting rift in Jean Kerr's plays between the witty, wise and thoroughly honest statements she makes about domestic life and the artificial plot mechanics she adopts for the sake of happy endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Happy Though Anxious | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

LAST TANGO in Paris won't be shown in Boston until April, and perhaps that's just as well for the sake of earlier films by Bernardo Bertolucci which will be around before then. The Conformist, which had its fair share of attention when it came out in 1971, will soon be showing at two local theaters. And now Before the Revolution, the film which won Bertolucci international renown at 23, returns to the Square together with The Spider's Strategem, a film made in 1969 for Italian television but released in the United States only this year...

Author: By Phil Patton, | Title: Skill and Stratagem | 2/14/1973 | See Source »

...those who feel that the commission is bound to fail is Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whose record in predicting events in Indochina has been remarkably accurate. Answering questions cabled by TIME's Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter, Sihanouk said: "I wish I were wrong for the sake of the Vietnamese people, but I believe South Viet Nam will eventually be divided in two-that is, one South Viet Nam satellite of the U.S., and another South Viet Nam run by the Viet Cong-for a while at least. One day a violent confrontation between the two incompatible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIETNAM: Untangling the Knots of the Truce | 2/12/1973 | See Source »

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