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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...posits a withdrawal of blacks from mainstream life at Harvard and calls this "ethnic thumb-sucking behavior," whose consequences have been disastrous. What does his analysis mean...

Author: By Melvin E. Reeves and Harvard W. Stephens, S | Title: Solidarity in Search of Identity | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

Because Levesque is not concerned with the more fundamental issue of democratization as a means of cultural protection and development, it makes little difference in whose hands responsibility for economic undemocracy lies. Given the importance of existing federal-provincial consultations, plus the already high degree of decentralization of jurisdiction over activities most obviously related to the domain of culture, it is not clear where, if at all, Levesque's 'independence' would lead to any substantive changes in the lifestyles of Quebeckers...

Author: By Murray Gold, | Title: Quebec: A Question of Culture | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Long John Nebel, 66, dean of all-night radio talk-show hosts whose early specialty was interviewing hypnotists, UFO freaks and sundry other pitchmen of the occult; of cancer; in Manhattan. An eighth-grade dropout with a quicksilver tongue, Long John (6 ft. 5 in.) worked as carnival huckster, mind reader and auctioneer before going on Manhattan's WOR in 1956. Indefatigable, he came to command 42 hours of air time a week on WNBC, more than any other host in radio history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1978 | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...change. In movies, it may have started two years ago in Robin and Marian; at 46, Audrey Hepburn played an exquisite and sexy Marian to Sean Connery's aging Robin Hood. This year, in An Unmarried Woman, Actress Jill Clayburgh portrays a wonderful 37-year-old whose husband leaves her for a much younger woman; a character in the movie accurately remarks that the husband was crazy to make the exchange. After a decade of tending barricades, Jane Fonda, now 40, has emerged as a fascinating actress and a forceful, attractive woman. Harper's Bazaar, which ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: In Praise of Older Women | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

suggestions made at a White House conference in September sparked the organization of the Citizens Committee on Paper work Reduction in Washington to carry on the work begun by the Commission on Federal Paperwork, whose charter expired at the end of January...

Author: By Joshua I. Goldhaber, | Title: Bok Joins Committee to Cut Red Tape | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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