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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would work like a noose, strangling our candidates." The first real showdown may come when both candidates face off outside their home regions, in Illinois on March 18. The challenger got a significant lift for that battle last week when Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, previously a Carter supporter, gave word that she was switching and will back Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Trilling believes in the old rules: the manner and social graces that went out with parietals and dress codes. When Harvard men moved to the Quad, students forgot the rules. The word manners became a buzzword for "elitist" and style was for snobs. The result? Loneliness...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman, | Title: Merger Without Manners | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

...made a lot of people listen," one demonstrator said as he spread the antinuclear word among lunching brokers. Television and newspapers spread the message too, attracted to the scene by the more than 1000 demonstrators willing to go to N.Y. jails...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: New York Takes Stock Of Anti-Nuclear Protest | 11/3/1979 | See Source »

While Podhoretz concedes the detachment of the intellectuals from the immediate political arena, he underestimates the extent of their removal from everyday life. This insularity is evidence everywhere, even in the user of the word "Neoconservative." Although lay writers now bandy this word about freely, to intellectuals it bears a specific, non-literal, denotation. Thus, while Podhoretz is considered a Neoconservative by intellectuals, he remains a liberal to the public...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: The Business of Intellectuals | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...building code regulation applies to businesses with five or more machines. The city regards these as "arcades," Mary R. Calnan, chairman of the Cambridge Licensing Commission, said yesterday. The ordinance does not include the word "arcade...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman and Kenneth J. Ryan, S | Title: City Sues Under Pinball Law | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

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