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Although Kate Kimelman registrar at the Stanford Art Museum, called Harvard's move "a shame," representatives of all three galleries agreed that the Fogg's surprise decision was understandable given the museum's financial predicament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg to Charge Admission To All but Students, Staff | 4/7/1983 | See Source »

Basketball fans at the University of Virginia have put Harvard hockey boosters to shame. Last month, with more than a week remaining before tickets to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament went on sale nearly 100 students had already queued up in front of the ticket office there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Monster Lines | 3/23/1983 | See Source »

...Israeli people and soldiers, "by affirming their humanity, also affirm the Palestinians'. They have risen in protest against the politics of terror that Israel itself has long had to endure. By their shame, they shame the killers of their own children. By their revulsion, they expose the hypocrisy of many of their critics." (Times Sept. 29). Mr. Bisharat, though his selective conscience, factual omissions, and distortions, is simply one more of those duplicitous assailants. William Marks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel's Morality | 3/8/1983 | See Source »

...consternation among the bishops, who seriously discuss Orwell's analogy to modern man-who "did not notice...that it was absolutely necessary that the soul be cut away"-ring truer than any of L 'Engle's accounts of death, shame and estrangement. The sections shows that the author's strength is still her ability to make questions of good and evil seem human and dramatic: the unnecessary clutter of A Severed Wasp suggests that she has mistaken her topic, but not her theme...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Cluttered Truths | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...political earthquake," set off shock waves throughout Israel and indeed throughout the world. It was hailed in the U.S. and Western Europe as a remarkable example of self-criticism by a democratic society. Said the New York Times: "How rare the nation that seeks salvation by revealing such shame." In France, Interior Minister Gaston Defferre remarked, "This report is the honor of Israel. It gives the world a new lesson in democracy." The Italian Communist paper L'Unita called the report "a turning point for Israel," while Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi wrote in La Stampa of Turin: "It would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Verdict Is Guilty: An Israeli commission and the Beirut massacre | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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