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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rationing. The Speaker also realized that the voters were fed up with the oil companies. "I've never seen the public so mad," O'Neill told reporters. "You take away gasoline and you destroy the family. That's the way they feel." Indiana Democrat John Brademas saw another reason for the vote, urged along by persuasive conservationist lobbying: "There is a feeling of protecting the great natural legacy of Alaska. It's a triumph for the environmental ethic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Backlash Against Big Oil | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

...Many of the accounts in the anthology had been published in South Korea without the objections of the government. Among the authors translated by Mr. Lee were Harvard China expert Ross Terrill and economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith described the essay in question, "The Chinese Economy Which I Saw," to Newsweek as "a straightforward and I would say highly uncolored description...

Author: By John Mcdargh and Mary ANN Z. kocur, S | Title: Publishing Under The Gun | 5/25/1979 | See Source »

...think Harvard is a very good and a very wonderful university. I see this in dozens of ways. There is little fear among the students for the faculty, and there are many opportunities for interchange. You just can't sit back in a classroom and not think. I never saw anything like this at a European university...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: The Best Political Scientist in the World Goes on Half-Time, Still an Optimist | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

...Claude Jade) are to be divorced that morning. Yet as he and his wife ride along in the taxi, Truffaut reveals through a series of flashbacks their courtship, love and marriage. The tenderness and love that still exists between them evokes a poignant sadness at their break-up. We saw them in Stolen Kisses drinking wine. We saw them married in Bed and Board. Now we see them about to be divorced. The movie constantly connects with the past, giving us a sense of history...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Antoine Grows Up | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...that we saw the adolescent Antoine constructing a shoebox shrine to Balzac. Now in Love on the Run, we see Antoine working in a printing shop and writing books. Through his autobiographical persona. Truffaut speaks for all the children in the world who grew up living vicariously through fiction. Mixed-up, intellegent, creative. Antoine symbolizes the modern intellectual who spent his adolescence going to classical music concerts only to fall in love with the girl in the next aisle...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: Antoine Grows Up | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

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