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...Everybody agrees it was extremely wise to start with an experiment and we learned lots. But the learning stops, said Jame. A Davis, the master of Winthrop House, which had its Standish half renovated during the summer months...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: College Accelerates House Renovations | 10/28/1982 | See Source »

These actions have shaken the Atlantic Alliance and stirred anew the long-running debate on whether trade sanctions are wise or even effective. Outspoken criticism of the President's policy comes not only from Europeans but also from many American foreign affairs experts. Said George Kennan, former American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, in a speech in Frankfurt last week: "We must immediately and completely stop every type of economic warfare. The attempt to prevent or set back the entire economic development of another people has no place in the politics of a democratic state in times of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade Warfare | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

Word to the Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 18, 1982 | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...answer was a resounding no, and that wise gentleman-the selfsame Noel Coward-assured him that it was not he who was out of touch; it was the decade. And he was right, as he so often is in this wicked, witty and refreshingly sane volume of diaries. Much of the work he so archly deplored has already been forgotten, while his own plays continue to please and delight, as they probably will for as long as audiences enjoy laughing. Present Laughter (1942), with George C. Scott, is one of this year's Broadway hits, and just two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mad Dogs and Blithe Spirits | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...hard to remember a movie that has better caught the flavor of life down at the supporting-player level (where you do your best work in little theaters for audiences of a hundred and your worst work on television for audiences of millions) than Christopher Frank's wise, rueful, often comical little import from France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love's Faces | 10/4/1982 | See Source »

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