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Values. For the most part, Jesuit educators and the ten U.S. provincial superiors think that the educational effort is still worth it. They acknowledge that there have been changes. The ratio studiorum no longer prevails: students can create their own educational plan?or chaos?from a smorgasbord of electives. The old, tough discipline is gone. The Jesuits themselves, clad in everything from jeans to wide-lapel sports jackets, often look like older versions of the students. A generation ago, young men and women could seldom share the same campus; now they sleep in the same dorms, and not always separately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

...company's turnaround is largely the result of a reorganization that has shaped a jumble of about 200 subsidiaries into four major divisions: metals, transportation, leisure and food production. Top managers who were slow to adjust were eased out, and losing properties, notably a smorgasbord of restaurants, were dumped. During the retrenchment, Chairman Ralph E. Ablon all but halted expansion into new fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGLOMERATES: Winning Wallflower | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...watched Paar in the late '50s and early '60s, however, the new Jack Paar was an acute attack of déjà vu. A large dollop of nostalgia was in order, of course, but younger viewers must simply have been dumbfounded by Paar's smorgasbord from the past. Almost all the old faces-living and dead-were there. Peggy Cass sat in as Paar's answer to Ed McMahon, introducing Paar and doing commercials. Genevieve, whose funny French accent Paar discovered, was a guest, along with such other oldtime regulars as Jonathan Winters. Even Pianist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Paar Exhumed | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

RAMADA INN SMORGASBORD THEATRE. (Rte. 1 in Danvers) Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Thurs.-Sat. at 9. Sunday matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the stage | 11/22/1972 | See Source »

...Spring Valley, N.Y. They arrived on chicken night (unlimited amount for $1.69) and devoured 360 pieces of chicken (about 90 lbs.), along with salad and rolls, before vanishing into the night. Another easy-to-spot glutton was the "gigantic man" who waddled into a Sir George's Smorgasbord House branch in the San Fernando Valley. He opened with 2 lbs. of salad, then reduced a chicken to rubble, inhaled two plates of roast beef, and washed it all down with milk. Then he thoughtfully wiped his plate clean with half a loaf of bread, paid his $2.50 check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Importance Of Being Greedy | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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