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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the image is exaggerated, Radcliffe Institute administrators acknowledge that it is wide-spread. "The Institute has played an enabling role in the past," Susan Storey Lyman '49, acting director of the Institute, explained. "It focused on helping the women Ph.D. to move ahead by giving her a sabbatical year to publish...

Author: By Emily Wheeler, | Title: The Radcliffe Institute: Out of the Ivory Tower And Into the Streets | 1/23/1974 | See Source »

...influence of the newspaper course has begun to spread beyond the living room. In New Canaan, Conn. -where the course runs in the Advertiser and 29 reader-students are enrolled for credit at the University of Connecticut-a community group has sponsored lectures based on the series, drawing as many as 75 listeners. A book club in San Diego uses the articles for regularly scheduled group discussions. Even prisoners - at least 46 from four states - have signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College by Newspaper | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...year old man became a private joke that Reiner and Brooks occasionally shared with friends in show business. But the bicentenaries's fame spread, and in 1960 Steve Allen persuaded them to record some of their material. That tape turned into 2000 years with Reiner and Brooks. 2001 Years with Reiner and Brooks and Reiner and Brooks at the Cannes Film Festival followed quickly, and though neither enjoyed the popularity of the first album, a large cult of Reiner-Brooks fans mourned when the old man was put out to pasture...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Musical Fruit | 1/18/1974 | See Source »

With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ribald Rib Tickler | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Subsequent experiments have proved that though the cortex is involved with memory, it does not act like a computer's memory bank, in which each bit of information is stored in a single electronic "cell." Memory, it has been found, is "delocalized" or spread throughout the cortex, and perhaps throughout the higher brain. Removing half the cortex may cause a proportional loss of capacity to remember, but it does not destroy specific memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exploring the Frontiers of the Mind | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

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