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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...packed halls in the sunny tranquillity of the University of California at San Diego. Tanned, fit, cheerful students mixed musings on revolution with sunning, surfing, downing beers. "You cannot have fun with fascism," Marcuse recently complained. Yet he seemed to have fun. Just three years ago, he married his third wife Erica (by his first marriage he had a son Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Revolution Never Came | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...cash (a 1979 budget of $300,000) but high on idealism, Commoner and his colleagues plan a national convention early next year and hope to nominate a presidential candidate. Said he: "We do not intend to be a third party nibbling away at the crumbs left over by the other two parties. We're going to challenge them for their existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Quixotic Quest | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...right governs, the left thinks,' says a familiar French dictum. No longer. A vigorous group of right-wing thinkers is now challenging the left's longstanding intellectual hegemony, proclaiming ominous theories on race, genetics and inequality rarely heard since the dark days of the Third Reich. The rise of this bold "New Right" has ignited the liveliest political debate in France since the advent of the New Philosophers, a group of disillusioned leftists who launched a blistering attack on Marxist dogma two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A New Right Raises Its Voice | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...brightest find of Spartakiad, both in ability and personality, was Carl Lewis, just turned 18. In only his third competition outside high school meets, the gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in his specialty, the long jump. Lewis was disappointed with third place in the long jump, but Stan Vinson, 27, who won gold medals in the 400-meter dash and 1,600-meter relay, looked ahead: "I think he'll jump 29 ft. before he's 20 the way he's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Losing and Learning in Moscow | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...third reinspection on March 15, Cremens declared "very little progress." It was not until April 15 that he acknowledged a number of the corrections in the common room in 24 Prescott St. He returned again on April 30 and found more improvements...

Author: By Jonathan D. Rabinovitz, | Title: Would You Rent an Apartment From Harvard University? | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

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