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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insulted by the implication that the majority of Southerners speak in terms of done did and might could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum: Nadia: What Price Perfection? | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...Neill says that Gerald Ford is the "last Republican President," his remark can be dismissed as partisan indulgence. But Oregon's former Republican Governor Tom McCall has to be taken more seriously when he says, with gallows wit: "I thought the party was already six feet under. You should speak more respectfully of the dead." Warns House Minority Leader John Rhodes: "If the G.O.P. does not experience a significant change in political fortunes by 1978, it is likely to go the way of the Whigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: THE PLIGHT OF THE G.O.P. | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

...parts, where one tends to find vocal ineptitude. I cannot fail to mention Tom McDermott's lovable portrayal of the tired old Adam, a role that some evidence indicates Shakespeare himself originally played. Praise too for Keith Baker, making his AST debut as Amiens; not only does he speak well but he proves himself an absolutely splendid tenor in rendering Lee Hoiby's songs. And the bright E-major setting of "It was a lover and his lass," the loveliest song in all the plays (albeit extraneous here), is enchantingly and impeccably sung by two little boy-sopranos, Harold Safferstein...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'As You Like It' in a Forest Without Green | 8/6/1976 | See Source »

...President, I would like to take the opportunity offered by the endowment of this chair to speak a little about the challenges which I believe both our countries face and about the contribution I hope the academic world can make to meeting them...

Author: By P.m. FRASERS Speech, | Title: Australia at Harvard | 8/3/1976 | See Source »

...above glossary, based on reports from TIME correspondents in the South, was written by a native of Baltimore and edited by a native of Brooklyn, both of whom speak widout de faintest trace of any kinda accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Glossary from Cot-tuh Country | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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