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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview over twenty individuals in the film--everyone from the chief of police at the University of Wisconsin to an aged but valiant Senator Ernest Gruening. A housewife tells of her early, intangible doubts concerning the war. Balding, thirty year old ex-campus radicals relive their moment in the sun, looking back with a curious mixture of embarassed nostalgia and pride at having been a part of the movement which fundamentally changed American foreign policy and values...

Author: By Deirdre M. Donahue, | Title: The Madison Front | 10/18/1979 | See Source »

These amusements are complicated by the fact that the native tongue of the players is not English but Doggese, a kind of revisionist lingo in which words have arbitrarily assigned meanings. When someone says "Sun-dock-trog-pan-slack," he is counting from one to five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Katt's Ploy | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Peking American-educated veterans of China's nuclear weapons program told of their plans to build by the mid-1980s a 50 billion-electron-volt accelerator for research in particle physics. Scientists are building two gravity-wave detectors, one in Peking, the other at Canton's Sun Yat-sen University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Long March for China | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...harness as big as the sun? It's huge--it's more than twice as big as the earth...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Dissertation on Roast Pig | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...laugh loud enough, my date, my friends, and maybe even the exalted savants of the Lampoon will know that I too know the circumference of the sun...I too have read King Lear...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Dissertation on Roast Pig | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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