Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This growing old!" he says as he turns into his 60s. "I suppose I should envy the afterlife believers, the genuflectors, the happy-ever-after ones who know beyond a shadow of doubt that we shall all meet again in some celestial vacuum, but I don't. I'd rather face up to finality and get on with life, lonely or not, for as long as it lasts." Perhaps that cool, rather brave philosophy explains why he never in fact did grow old, and why the best of his work remains ever fresh and, like the title...
...agreeing that publishers have the right to print anything they want is no excuse to ignore other possible ways of protecting society's potentially suicidal readers. Firmly supporting freedom of the press is irreproachable, but insisting that this right, unlike all other value judgments, must be exercised in a vacuum is absurd. Efforts to control Suicide indirectly--like the vigorous efforts of French groups to pass laws punishing suicide "accomplices" are simply essential in keeping scrutiny of the question alive. There is no point in being doctrinaire about such power...
...Into the vacuum rushes film critic Diane Jacobs. "Only his analyst," burbles the book jacket, "could possibly know Woody Allen as well as Diane Jacobs." Jacobs does, in fact, take something of the analyst's approach: dutifully "listening" to, or in this case recounting, all the content of each of Allen's works, then examining it for patterns. She succeeds in detecting a few basic clues. The later movies are subtler than the early ones, for example, and Allen the artist separates himself more and more from Allen the persons. Oh, and there are some continuing themes: the contrast...
Ward and others said they hoped the guide, which had evolved from an independent-study project, would fill a long-standing vacuum of necessary information as well as encouraging Blacks to apply to a greater range of schools. The format for the book seemed as simple and well-intentioned as the concept behind it: Each of the 114 schools included in the book would have a similar statistical breakdown revealing, for example, the number of tenured Black faculty members and percentage of Blacks receiving financial aid. A narrative summary of each school based on a dean's questionnaire and about...
...aide. Perhaps so, but the apparatus for handling those issues is in an uneasy transition stage at a critical time. It remains to be seen whether Clark's current pre-eminence as an adviser is a foretaste of the new order or is due simply to the immediate vacuum around Reagan. Even within the White House there are worries not only about Clark's inexperience but also about the quality of the NSC staff. If foreign policy is indeed going to be made at the White House, the President is sure to need more help than...