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HEAT OF THE DAY (PBS, Sept. 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). For those who like their mysteries solved in one evening, Michael Gambon plays a suspicious stranger who latches on to a divorcee in World War II London, in this Masterpiece Theater drama scripted by Harold Pinter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 1, 1990 | 10/1/1990 | See Source »

...archaeologist's tools are of use not just on the national and political level, but in discussing the inner life of the poet himself. In several poems Heaney describes an incident from his youth or a Yeatsian encounter with a stranger, and then shows how this core event has continued to shape his consciousness...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: Seamus Heaney's Poetry: Excavating His Irish Roots | 9/28/1990 | See Source »

...seminar blackboard and bringing them into reality in this nation (which is low on money) and at this time (when the people in a single congressional district number more than the 413,000 in the Buffalo Commons area) are dramatically different things. The commons idea is a stranger in the departments of Agriculture and the Interior. If George Bush had heard of the concept, he would have posed with a buffalo. He hasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugh Sidey's America: Where the Buffalo Roamed | 9/24/1990 | See Source »

Henry Rosovsky, of course, is no stranger to the job. As dean of the Faculty for more than a decade, Rosovsky is credited with founding Harvard's Core Curriculum. After a six-year absence, he returns this year to University Hall, replacing economist A. Michael Spence, who left this summer to become dean of Stanford University's business school...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Rosovsky Vows to Stay the Course | 9/14/1990 | See Source »

Henry Rosovsky, of course, is no stranger to the job. As dean of the Faculty for more than a decade, Rosovsky is credited with founding Harvard's Core Curriculum. After a six-year absence, he returns this year to University Hall, replacing economist A. Michael Spence, who left this summer to become dean of Stanford University's business school...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Rosovsky Vows to Stay the Course | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

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