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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day." I wonder if Camus read Kafka, who expressed a strikingly similar existential thought when he wrote: "Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name; in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Former Mayor Austin, who is now a local real estate broker, describes what happened when he went with an assistant state attorney general to a site bought by a Canadian developer. "I was standing more than 200 ft. from the water. I thought this was the point we could start building. But this young fuzzy-cheeked assistant A.G. was way up in the dunes, maybe 30 ft. behind me. 'What the hell you doing up there?' I asked. He says, 'I'm looking for the vegetation line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Texas: Building Castles on the Sand | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong...but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gave it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support." Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience...

Author: By Celia W. Dugger, | Title: A Matter of Conscience | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

Silber wrote Arthur G.B. Metcalf, chairman of the board of trustess: "I thought that press handling has been pretty good thus far and, fortunately, there is enough significant news elsewhere to prevent major space...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters Show Silber Wanted To Discredit Faculty Strike | 4/14/1979 | See Source »

When BAA President Will Cloney '33 was asked this week how 'The Crimson--without credentials--could expect to cover properly the many Harvard runners in the Marathon, he could only respond, "I didn't know there were that many Harvard students in the race. I thought they were smarter than that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marathon-Sized Slap in the Face | 4/13/1979 | See Source »

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