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...acceptance of a possible pregnancy--that in effect you invited the stranger in, that you knew what you were in for and that he now has the right to demand your help. But faulty contraception is like a broken window. When you return to your suite and find your stereo missing, do you accede the thief's right to take it because your window is easily pried open? The abortion issue thus forces a clarification of the nature of the individual and his social rights. Although we may feel morally constrained to protect the future child, the fetus does...

Author: By Tanya Luhrmann, | Title: The Pro-Choice Argument | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...Nothing at all," Theda and William Skocpol, associate professors of sociology and physics, quipped in stereo. "Neither...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toilet Papers | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

Adams' house, like most middle-class homes before the dawn of stereo, had an upright piano, and Adams practiced on it assiduously. By 14, endowed with a nearly perfect memory, he could take a score to bed with him, study it, and play it in the morning. His teacher was a very Prussian octogenarian named Frederick Zech, formerly professor of music at the conservatory in Potsdam. "He was a great disciplinarian," recalls the pupil. "He turned me from a Sloppy Joe into a good technician. If it hadn't been for that, I don't know what would have taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Yosemite | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...like a stream of mosaic colors, and the noise became louder; orange cement mixers whirling and turning and the tools spitting out their dense, metallic noises; they got louder and louder, so loud that I blocked my ears and worried that my neighbor might come to complain about the stereo again. But it was real...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...cream, the only flavor in the world with a cult following. Depressed? There is a 24-hour store in the Square that markets marijuana paraphernalia, or, if you're broke, there's the Hare Krishna group that congas through the Square regularly. Bored? Some nice man, usually representing a stereo store, will hand you things to read, and when you're finished, there's a construction project, with real cranes and jackhammers and union members to watch. Wowie zowie...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pinball, Disco, Food. It's Found in Cambridge | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

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