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Telecourses are most helpful at community colleges. Yet such large, respected universities as Wisconsin, Indiana, Temple and Ohio State are using various courses, often with hefty supplements. The televised segment, after all, is intended less as a self-contained course than as a lively and visually far-ranging substitute for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Boob Tubes | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Curiously, the rough edges, inevitable in a piece by so young a composer, give the work more impact. Lady Macbeth is an opera of sexual obsession; Katerina Ismailova, by comparison, is merely about crime and punishment. The restoration of the third act of Lulu two years ago ensured that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Add One to the List of Greats: Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

Certain American neighborhoods once possessed a similar palpable soul, the neighborhood being the urban apartment dweller's substitute for an ancestral house and grounds. In a sense, it is the soul that Americans yearn after when they think of houses. After an earthquake or tornado, the news always lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Downsizing an American Dream | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

What the New Right proposes instead, in its pending array of court-hobbling bills, is to substitute its own predilections. But the very notion of such legislation, says University of Southern California Law Professor Leonard Ratner, implies that "Congress could by statute profoundly alter the structure of American Government." If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Trying to Trim the U.S. Courts | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

MATTHAU AND CLAYBURGH try to sneak through this barrelling plot, hoping that if they just read their lines, no one will notice that they are even in the movie. As usual, Matthau lets his flabby-cheeked scowl and floppy jackets substitute for any real characterization. He makes it clear that...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Marek, | Title: A New Sister | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

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