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There was a time when the deathbed was a kind of proscenium, from which the personage could issue one last dramatic utterance, full of the compacted significance of his life. Last words were to sound as if all of the individual's earthly time had been sharpened to that...
The events in Lebanon and Grenada, though oceans apart, are closely related," President Reagan maintained in the summation of his televised address. Moscow, he said, "assisted and encouraged the violence in both countries." As a consequence, the U.S. must become less reticent about asserting itself in the world. As Reagan...
SNC is the third network-linked cable service to collapse in little more than a year. The Entertainment Channel, which was financed in part by NBC's parent corporation, RCA, failed to attract subscribers. CBS Cable, a cultural channel, reached 5 million households but, like SNC, did not attract...
But of all these, none is more dreaded or reviled than the oral examination, the supposed summation of all that has gone before. Some students change entire plans of study just to avoid them. In the History and Literature department, an all-honors concentration, orals are required for high honors...
Under frescoed portraits of Diderot and Voltaire, luminaries ranging from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Márquez to Novelists Norman Mailer and William Styron and Actress Sophia Loren debated such topics as state control of the arts and the unemployment crisis. In between they supped at the Foreign Ministry and...