Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed such a nice, harmless idea. A Moscow school principal was casting about for a topic to assign as a theme to 300 youngsters ages ten to 13. He came up with the sturdy standby: "How I Would Like to Live When I Grow Up." Perhaps there would be evidence that the students had absorbed the aspirations of New Soviet Man, an idealized citizen devoted to the good of society and for whom the Communist Party has searched since 1917. Only 18 months ago, President Konstantin Chernenko reminded the nation that "the molding of the New Man is an imperative...
...been obsessed with the same topic for two years," said Julie A. Alverez '85. She said she plans to continue her obsession, but thinks she'll "take a leave of abscence from the topic for a while...
...face-lifting, the catalog room is being computerized, its 8,973 drawers and 10 million cards replaced by a central memory bank and 50 low-slung terminals. Instead of thumbing through stacks of 3-by-5 cards in search of a book, readers will now type a title or topic on a keyboard and watch the pertinent information flash onto a screen before them...
...topic is discussed constantly in Moscow these days, for clearly understandable reasons. The Soviet party leader and President, 73, who is believed to be suffering from emphysema, has been absent from public view for about a month. Soviet television last showed an apparently frail Chernenko on Dec. 27, handing out awards at a Kremlin ceremony. Three days earlier he had missed the funeral of Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, held in Red Square on a bitterly cold...
Sharon admits that he met with the Gemayels but denies that the topic of revenge came up. He has argued, publicly and in court, that TIME's paragraph in effect accused him of encouraging the massacre. TIME contends that the disputed passage does not accuse Sharon of fomenting the slaughter. The magazine further maintains that the paragraph's only meaning is that the subject of revenge came up in a talk between Sharon and the Phalangists and that it implies that the former Defense Minister must have been aware of the dangers of sending the militiamen into the camps without...