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...even jubilant tonight. Good singer, John ny, best in class. Not a bad actor. Played George Gibbs in the senior production of Our Town and still thinks of Grover's Corners when, from soaring Pine Hill across the river, he looks down on the tilted strew of toy buildings that are Kittanning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Pennsylvania: A Time on the River | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...heavy in the air on a holiday weekend. Young couples, sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose her lifelong war against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels; a gaggle of paunchy businessmen, obviously chafing under the discomfort of the sand that still clings to their Coppertone-greasy skin, discusses the probable trends in tomorrow's market. No one quite notices the crowd of young blacks huddled...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The End of the Line | 7/7/1978 | See Source »

...minihell of incessantly frustrated emotions in a barren provincial outpost of non-civilization, this particular cast stirs up only a tempest in a samovar. Vanya should be compacted of anguish; Hutt is merely consumed by pique. When he shoots at Serebriakov and misses him twice, one hears only the toy pistol retort of a toyed-with emotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shakespeare, Chekhov & Co. | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...born in Budapest. His father was a tenor in the Royal Hungarian Opera chorus, and his mother an amateur pianist. At three, Nyiregyházi could reproduce on a toy piano the melodies that his father sang. At four, he began piano lessons and composing. His first piece, he recalls, was "sort of Japanese-my father had been singing Madama Butterfly-and in the key of A-minor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nine Wives and 700 Works Later | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

...MORE IMPORTANT than any specific institutional structure or tactic, is that students must develop a common consciousness. This consciousness is not just a pretty toy to toss around at midnight gripe sessions. Rather, it must be the inspiration and focus for all direct action at the University. Such common identification is necessary so that whenever students, in the assembly or in the streets, gather to protest any individual policy, or demand some specific redress, they will realize that the problem is much larger. The action they seek must ultimately not only right some immediate wrong, but also strengthen students' rights...

Author: By Tom M. Levenson, | Title: Counter-Revolution at Harvard | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

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