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The plan is like the classic response of the bureaucrat, or parent whose children are getting older and more independent--it's much easier to try to control, rather than to trust and have faith in the outcome. The faculty's solution to the muddled state of undergraduate education mirrors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More on the Core | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

First, I am not now, nor have I ever been, a champion of the male sex. I am only too well aware of the unpleasant qualities possessed by many of the humans who share my anatomy, and am also well aware of the unfairness and humiliation that has often characterized...

Author: By Nicholas B. Gunther, | Title: ...and a Note From the Author | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

For the first time Adams introduces contemporary humans into his fiction. In a preface he distinguishes the ones who are "pleasant" from those who are "unpleasant." This criterion is useful when planning a dinner party but not quite up to the demands of a lengthy novel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puppy Love | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Hard as he is on unpleasant people, Adams lays a heavier hand on things and ideas he does not like. The center that Rowf and Snitter escape from is called Animal Research, Surgical and Experimental (A.R.S.E.). Its acronym hits the level on which every endeavor that does not involve padding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Puppy Love | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Confronted by such unpleasant options, Carter had been looking in another direction: a compromise settlement worked out earlier last week by the union and 'the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Mining Co., a small subsidiary of Gulf Oil, which is not a member of the 130-company B.C.O.A.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter Acts--Just inTime | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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