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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibility that talk once again might turn into violence placed added urgency on Soviet-American attempts to work out a Middle East blueprint for peace. As a result of discussions between Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco, the two nations last week were reportedly near agreement on peace terms. The U.S. is said to have conceded that Israel must return to the border with Egypt that existed before the 1967 war. Russia and the U.S. were also said to have agreed that Israel must accept the return of Palestinian refugees on a quota basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Words of Violence | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

HELLER: There is no earthly way-maybe there is a heavenly way-to achieve price stability or to disinflate without knocking people out of jobs. When you talk about moving from, say, 3.5% to 4.5% unemployment, that means an other 830,000 people will be knocked out of work. They are not likely to be the skilled and the semiskilled and the strong. They will probably be those workers who are the weakest links in the employment chain, potentially the most disruptive links in the social and political chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME's Board of Economists | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...program to boost retention. Some are based on a sort of psychedelic flash card system that assaults young minds with a pleasant barrage of sights, sounds and colors repeated over and over. Often the Muppets, ingenious hand puppets with all the comfortable soft sell of a favorite doll, talk about ideas. Short film clips are also used to great advantage, sometimes with bouncy bubble-gum rock music in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: The Forgotten 12 Million | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...Oregon's state system of higher learning, began working with children across the country. "We learned that what bores them is too much time spent on any one subject." Hence the short spots. Also, "Nothing loses them faster than an adult full-face on the screen just talking." Hence the Muppets, the graphics and the film clips. "We try to keep verbiage to a minimum," Palmer adds. "If you sit and talk straight at them, kids think you're giving them Walter Cronkite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public TV: The Forgotten 12 Million | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...essay called "The Dead World and the Live World." written for The Sixties. Bly complained about the refusal of our literature to "shed its skin." to talk about what wasn't "exclusively human.": "One can predict first of all that such a nation will bomb foreign populations very easily, since it has no sense of anything real beyond its own ego." To this insight Bly has brought the evidence of poets in translation, publishing in small editions the work of Spanish. German, and Scandinavian writers who were receiving little or no attention in this country. It is from poets like...

Author: By James R. Atlas, | Title: Looking In Robert Bly tonight at 8, Emerson 105 | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

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