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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other hand, Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, says that he is attracted to the Extension School because it offers a "broader intellectual and social experience than that associated with being an academic." Kilson, who is offering "Ethnic Politics in America" in his twelfth year of extension instruction, says that he is "hooked" on teaching extension courses because the "far more variegated background" of the school's students "brings an added dimension to discussions...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Extension School Helps Non-Students Catch Up On Things | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...deplores "the kind of '60s liberalism that involves pushing money after every problem." In education, he is against permissive systems that "teach kids algebra hi the third grade and remedial reading in the twelfth grade." On law and order: "Let's get back to the old-fashioned idea that an individual is responsible for his actions." On drugs: "If people want to get high, they should turn to meditation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Now the Candid Sell | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...York Film Festival, which opened its twelfth annual installment at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week, could use a friendly, or at least a forbearing hand. Each year, a selection committee headed by Festival Director Richard Roud (who also functions as a critic for scholarly film magazines like Sight and Sound) picks a couple of dozen movies for showing, and promptly finds itself attacked on one of two fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pictures at an Exhibition | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

After Keefe, the Crimson finish was pretty dismal. Freshman Stein Rafto earned good marks for his twelfth place effort, but Brian Dunn, Tom Phillips and Campbell finished well back in the pack. Injuries and inexperience proved to be too much...

Author: By Dennis P. Corbett, | Title: Penn, Columbia Beat Harriers; Keefe Finishes Ahead of Pack | 10/5/1974 | See Source »

...each of larceny and conspiracy) against the two defendants. "It's only fair to say I am now over the brink," declared the exasperated judge. What pushed Nichol over was Kurd's refusal to allow the case to be decided by only 11 jurors after the twelfth became ill. "I'm rather ashamed that the Government was not represented better in this case," said Nichol in the course of an hour-long denunciation of the prosecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: Over the Brink | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

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