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Word: standards (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nerves. The Christmas tree in Mather dining hall does bother me, but I'm more concerned by the possibility that I'm being trivial or overly-serious--a possibility that Gelin raises and that I acknowledge. This is the Jewish holiday anguish, and Harvard Jews exhibit some of the standard reactions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happy Holidays | 12/13/1977 | See Source »

...Double Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...activities in Southeast Asia designed to prevent the type of atrocities currently being committed by the Pol Pot regime. Our human rights campaign has to date been highly selective, directed primarily against governments of the right while leaving left-leaning regimes almost completely alone. Talk about the old double standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 12, 1977 | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...mobs of eager Christmas shoppers entered department store aisles as fast as The Santa Corporation's line of products expanded, and as the company grew and the ingenious elves kept finding better and more efficient ways of making presents, the land's standard of living grew, too. No citizen of Santaland, as it came to be known, ever needed to worry about food or shelter after The Santa Corporation hit its stride...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...friends) insinuated Christian themes into a variety of other works. Those included a widely read space fantasy trilogy and seven immensely successful children's stories known as The Chronicles of Narnia. As an expert on medieval and Renaissance English at Oxford and Cambridge he also produced standard works on Spenser, Milton, and 16th century prose and poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: C.S. Lewis Goes Marching On | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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