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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger clearly does not understand what a free press is all about. . . " That should make a free press clearer to the Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Making the Unbelievable Believable | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...felt something was missing." A few spectators, however, thought something was still amiss. "Is this a junkyard?" asked one. Moore was undaunted. "People shouldn't immediately expect to cotton onto something someone else has been thinking about much, much longer," he says. "I mean, they don't understand Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 18, 1978 | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Organizationally, the labor movement is hampered by the fact that its membership consists mainly of working people with a low level of poltical awareness. Leadership cannot pursue policies that membership does not understand and towards which workers would not be sympathetic. But labor leaders have also not followed the most progressive possible strategy within the limits defined by organizational considerations. On the contrary, leadership's ideological preference for elite politics and reform through state bureaucracy has even further reduced labor's political power...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Canada's Leftists Pick Up Support | 12/14/1978 | See Source »

...article about the robbery of Store 24 that appeared in your paper on December 11, you mention that a store was robbed by approximately 35 people while "a predominately black crowd" milled outside waiting for a concert to begin. I personally fail to understand how the race of a crowd (or the looters or the store owners or anyone else involved) is relevant to the fact that Store 24 was robbed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporting Race | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

...your head, the trappings of this production are never less than fascinating: Sellars never lets his audience go. Maybe there's no reason for Enobarbus to make love to a character called Fortune (a fatalistic composite of minor officers, advisors and soothsayers), but then I'm not sure I understand the (flamboyantly) sensual Enobarbus of this production at all (although on his own terms, Topher Dow plays him quite well). And I can't discern much directorial interpretation of the forces compelling Antony's fall, the ability of lust and indolence to dissolve a man's will--although the magnetic...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Floating Shakespeare | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

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