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...course, before President Carter made his bold proposal for a crash program to produce synthetic fuels from sources as varied as shale, coal, sugar beets and even garbage. Congressmen are increasingly worried that his program may be too costly, too ambitious, too bureaucratic. Yet synfuel is precisely the sort of project, though dismissed by the Harvard experts in advance, that holds tremendous promise. Already, synfuel is being produced economically abroad. For the U.S. to downplay it and put most of its chips on solar and conservation would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: That New Energy Buzz Book | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...system of justice is a huge and complex machine. Delicately balanced by counterweights, equipped with elaborate filters and safety valves, it is designed to sort the guilty from the innocent, restore rights, redress wrongs. In short, to do justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judging the Judges | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal." he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Harvard Hates LeBoutillier | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Kuumba Singers: the all-black chorus dedicated to performing every sort of black music from spirituals to African folk songs to modern songs...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: Sign Up, Please | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...swirl of love and rage occludes his perception of them. Literature offers a useful look, but most often it is a look at that minority of tormented adolescents whose members grow up to write novels about the pain of puberty, not the joy. Films of the traditional sort did not risk truthtelling, largely because of the hoodoo of sex. What they gave us was Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland sipping one soda through two straws. The suggestion that Judy wore a bra, and that Mickey might have wanted to unhook it, would have been so unthinkable that to mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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