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...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for Islamic unity. Thunderous roars of approval arose as young victims of the war passed by on parade, swathed in bandages or seated in wheelchairs. Around them on every side, portraits of a glowering Khomeini stared down to discourage unholy thoughts and whip up further support. The grand finale of "The Ten Holy Nights," February's celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Republic, seemed to uncork a patriotic fever bordering on hysteria. "Iran is in a state of great excitement," said a high Japanese official who recently visited the nation. "You feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fever Bordering on Hysteria | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...past, the threat of a termination in federal funds was government's most potent weapon with which to whip discriminatory institutions into line. Now, with all the teeth taken out of the ruling and the absence of an Equal Rights Amendment, women have virtually no recourse to legal protection during their years of education, having to rely instead, as one activist put it, "on good will rather than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Women Athletes An Even Break | 3/8/1984 | See Source »

...spotted him one and one half hours before the final in the Greenhouse Cafe just beginning to work in his coffee and a stack of term papers at least twelve inches high. They had to be returned within a few hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor" did his work in circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter of dishes. I suppose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Instruction? | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...expressed scorn and consternation. Said a Republican Senator after the meetings: "They don't want to leave Lebanon without some measure of success. That doesn't sound like withdrawal to me. They don't have any intention of leaving." Republican Congressman Trent Lott, the House minority whip, said he told Dam, "You people are not in touch with reality." Said Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd: "It's not only chaos and confusion over there, it's confusion and chaos here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Power of Perception | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Rivera (Anna) is about as small-time as Radio City Music Hall. Packing 30 years of Broadway savvy into the frame of a vivacious teenager, the 51-year-old entertainer could by now sell a song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Coney Island of the Mind | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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