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...have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known to "push biddies in the creek." Windsor admits he made up this heinous crime, drowning chicks, but says he was sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Crimson has done it again. Your editorial piece. "Sore Losers" (3/23/83) had a chance at being one of The Crimson's best it failed to have any serious impact, however, because of a sort of "tunnel vision" that is becoming more and more characteristic of the Editorial Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inconsistent | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

...that the Right Rev. Ronald Reagan journeyed last week to the holy precincts of the 41st annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in made Fla. His fiery sermon mixed statecraft and religion. He made politicians from Moscow to Washington sore and brought the divinity-school crowd out of their paneled studies with flutters and shrieks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: The Right Rev. Ronald Reagan | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Splendor and Misery does successfully convey some of the turbulence of the early 60's, particularly the emergence of a large-scale drug culture and the sexual revolution. But ultimately even these attempts at verisimilitude fall flat, and the contrived historical references rest on the pages like so many sore thumbs. Levine introduces some world events by abruptly creating new characters. Others she simply deposits in the middle of the text, as in the one-sentence chapter announcing Ted Kennedy's election to the Senate...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: Harvard as Hallucinogen | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...faculty members by tightening accounting procedures in the library, forcing the cancellation of one-third of its periodical subscriptions. When the faculty protested the reduction, charges History Professor Donathan Olliff: "We got the response that the library is no more, in terms of priorities, than buildings and grounds." Another sore point: a Funderburk aide suggested that faculty members granting interviews to the press report the "nature of such conversations" to the director of university relations. To most of the faculty, that sounded like censorship. Funderburk's problems have also been complicated by his style of working with a small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Choosing Up Sides at Auburn | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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