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...read of the dangers facing the press in El Salvador [March 29]. We must not forget one young American journalist, John Sullivan, who went to that country in December 1980 to report. He has not been seen or heard from since. But his life will not have been in vain if his colleagues can help to bring an end to the Salvadoran conflict by exposing the situation to public opinion. I am the sister of that courageous young man, and I still wait for his return...
...know whether we're just fishing or not." Harvard Police Chief Saul L. Chafin said as the five-month search for Joan Webster entered a new phase. By the end of the week, police had dragged in vain both Walden Pond and a lake in Beverly...
...quietly satisfied" when told of the verdict, according to their attorney, Richard Kuh. Said he: "Mrs. Von Bülow will be in a coma for the rest of her life. At least, seeing a wrongdoer brought to justice makes the trial seem it has not been all in vain...
CYNICS COULD DISMISS a hefty proportion of literary criticism and philosophy as the creative artist's struggle--in vain, of course--to justify his adherence to the arts over the pressing issues of politics. The attempt to legitimize art, in a world increasingly skewed towards the political, the economic and the scientific, has assumed some strange configurations. There is the essentially Marxist-inspired vision of poetry as the picture of life after the Revolution; the poet, as Party servant, illustrates prophecies, bringing the dreamers' vision alive for the toiling workers. The same impulse can be detected in the Emersonian vision...
...also so disgustingly vain that at times she can be more a turn-off than a turn-on. The meticulous arrangement of every single hair on her head is enough to drive you crazy. In the movie's opening moments, after she swims naked for what seems like none-long enough for the neighborhood sicko to spend several roils of film perusing her body-she pauses at the side of the pool with an inquisitive look at her constant male companion. "I like looking at you," he says. And the sultry reply: "I like being looked...