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...matter of principle, put an end to our deadly Tinker Toy games of setting up and knocking down other people's governments. (The Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus Church of St. John the Evangelist (Lutheran) Co-Founder, Clergy and Laity Concerned New York City Lifting Mexico's Veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 14, 1974 | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...Radcliffe. These involve the entire University community and as such the Strauch Committee should work with the community in its task if it is truly to come to the best resolution for everyone. Private meetings of the Strauch Committee are necessary and desirable in some instances, but a complete veil of secrecy is unjustified and harmful for the University...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: Secrecy at Harvard | 9/20/1974 | See Source »

Beecher is nearly prose-flat, simplistic, partial to Walt Whitman's "barbaric yawp" and defiant about it: "Must I be schooled,/ veil plain speech in symbolic fog, costume/ polemics for a merry morris dance,/ practice new types of ambiguity . . .?" He can be perversely unsophisticated, monotonously on the side of the "little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vox Pop | 7/22/1974 | See Source »

...promised, Giscard brought a woman into his Cabinet. Simone Veil, 46, a prominent Paris jurist, was named Minister of Health. Three posts went to members of Giscard's small Independent Republican Party. No fewer than eight posts went either to nonpolitical civil servants or to leaders of the small center parties that made indispensable contributions to Giscard's wafer-thin margin of victory. One of them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No One Here But Us Liberals | 6/10/1974 | See Source »

...MUCH FOR THE free flow of information. Two VES students who were particularly upset about the firings and the rumors surrounding them will meet with the executive committee next week; perhaps then the committee will lift the veil of ignorance--as John Rawls would call it--and begin to tell people what they have on their minds...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: The Secret Sharer | 5/17/1974 | See Source »

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