Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain's Prime Minister, there is a woman. She is Bonnie Angelo, TIME's London bureau chief, who in recent weeks has seldom been more than a few steps behind Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party leader whose triumph in England's election is the subject of this week's cover story. Angelo spent 20 years dogging U.S. politicians as a correspondent in Washington before moving to London last year, and has since trailed Thatcher from Newcastle to Gravesend. "Thatcher is not like any candidate I've ever seen," says Angelo. "She is Barry Goldwater played...
...Douglas, from the English department at Columbia University, actually changed her project after coming to the center, giving up "American Saints of the Victorian Era" for a less highfalutin subject: "Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and the Literary Life of New York in the 1920s." "There's a broader audience than the university is telling us," she insists, voicing a favorite wisdom of the center...
Plainly the citizen's plight is not subject to quickie remedy. Yet any solution would have to entail a shift in the relationship between the priests of knowledge and the lay public. The expert will have to play a more conscious role as citizen, just as the ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule...
...discussions with the Engelhard family that three students from the committee initiated a month ago, the two groups agreed--subject to the final approval of Kennedy School and University officials--that the school will place a plaque inside the library acknowledging the gift of the foundation "made in memory of Charles W. Engelhard...
...bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Ala. He asked his producer, who checked with Ford Motor Co. (the sponsor), the FBI (every show was cleared by the agency) and ABC. The producer reported back "they would be delighted to have me write about a church bombing, subject only to three stipulations." The church had to be in the North, there could be no Blacks involved and it could have nothing to do with the civil rights movement...