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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repugnant a state as this; even the sorriest of them participated in only a few of the characteristics of such an idea form, and then in an attenuated degree. But one can clearly see why a social club would only be sensible in excluding such an individual, whatever the wisdom might be of admitting him to the university, and most of the officers on Prospect Street would agree that this precisely describes the sort of man who must at all costs be kept out. It is also a fairly accurate portrait of Einstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 Per Cent on Prospect St. | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...even vaguer relationship between Masonic ritual and parts of The Magic Flute--which Prum does not underscore, but parodies, giving his priests of Isis red-plastic horns to blow and coffee-can censers. Later, Prum projects photos of Widener to illustrate Prince Tamino's approach to the Temple of Wisdom...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Singspiel in the Subway | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...Philip Morris can produce experts who disagree with the prevailing wisdom. As the director of the Tobacco Research Institute, Gary L. Huber, points out, "the truth is that the vast majority of smokers suffer no disease." In fact, Philip Morris will concede a single difference between smokers and non-smokers: "Generally, smokers tend to be more assertive, time-conscious and energetic than non-smokers...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Come to Where the Flavor Is... | 4/16/1981 | See Source »

...Reagan may have, partly by calculation and partly by happenstance, found the key to defusing special interest pressures and reining in spending The presumption that spending could be cut by close to $40 billion was at first either ridiculed or greeted with deep skepticism by those anointed with "conventional wisdom " . there is now reasonable probability that most of the President s proposals will become law. What has changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Secret to Budget Cuts | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

...KATZ is flashed on a back-panel screen from time to time for sardonic wisdom and minor laughs.) Tess and Sam do not meet cute; they meet silly. She launches on a TV diatribe about how cretinous the "funnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Supremely Sophisticated Lady | 4/13/1981 | See Source »

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