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...does really think that there is no distinction between I virtue and vice," warns Dr. Samuel Johnson, "why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons." Judging by the recent pronouncements of some of our leaders, it is time to start husbanding spoons. Not that anyone in public life denies that there are moral distinctions to be made; but there seems to be a growing unwillingness-or is it an inability?-to make them, even the most simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Moral Equivalent of... | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

Wright's house anticipated the contemporary search for an affordable, compact home design that fits today's lifestyle of working parents and kitchen entertaining. Wright claimed to have designed more than a hundred of these houses, to which he applied Samuel Butler's term Usonian (derived from the initials U.S.). Their architecture was intended to embody the spirit of democracy as Wright saw it, a spirit of close-to-nature individualism and hearth-centered family life. The exterior of the two-bedroom house shows mostly an unassuming brick wall. It has no attic, porch or basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Wright Inspiration | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

CONVICTED. Samuel Brown, 43, ex-convict; of murder and robbery in the 1981 Brink's armored-truck holdup at a Nanuet, N.Y., mall in which a guard and two police officers were killed; in White Plains, N.Y. Brown was the last of the nine Brink's suspects in custody to be prosecuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 25, 1984 | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...Samuel Fachlin--Moscow correspondent for Danish Broadcasting Corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Niemans | 6/24/1984 | See Source »

...resounding nothing. Pusey, a religious man with a passion for civility and reason, seemed particularly ill-suited to handle or even comprehend the conflict. After the bust in April 1969 the Faculty, divided into factions, began to assert its power. As Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs Samuel P. Huntington said at the time. "After the bust, there was basically no legitimate authority in the University." Authority had lost all claims to respect, and the ascendancy of President Derek C. Bok in 1971 did not offer much promise--Bok was known as a cautious player of interests...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Speaking freely in academe? | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

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