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...tempting to point out flaws and discuss weaknesses in student productions. But when a show is as well-directed and performed as Harvard Summer Theater's production of Traveller Without Luggage, 'critical duty' is really no more than a petty, worthless compulsion to nit-pick...

Author: By Nancy Yousseff, | Title: Family Feud | 7/24/1984 | See Source »

...flatly refuse to set up a working group to study the build-down, but he said it would be a "worthless exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Gods of War | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

...wire, used to be considered less an asset than a potential liability for the British and Commonwealth newspapers that hold most of the shares: the company sometimes lost money and paid no dividend for more than 40 years. Proprietors of defunct journals treated their residual interest in Reuters as worthless, omitting mention of the stock in their wills. Sellers of papers regarded their percentage of Reuters as at most an incidental value. This week, however, Reuters for the first time will offer shares to the public, and the once disgruntled owners expect to reap a paper windfall of $1.05 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Reuters' Hot Financial Flash | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Freud warned that sexual reforms like those we have witnessed might make matters worse. In 1912 he foretold: "In times in which there were no difficulties standing in the way of sexual satisfaction, such as perhaps during the decline of ancient civilizations, love became worthless and life empty, and strong reaction-formations were required to restore the indispensable emotional value of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 30, 1984 | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...product of a racist self-styled analyst, Hirschorn's tirade can be classified as an attempt to refine that schism. By tying worthless praise of Reverend Jackson's to the contingency that he support the Democratic nominee, and by suggesting that the destruction of the two-primary system in the South will hurt Black voters by leading to the election of Southern Republicans, he glosses over the fact that historically, Southern Democrats have been the most overtly racist members of the U.S power elite. Ultimately, it makes no real difference to the plight of Blacks in Mississippi if democrat John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense Of Jackson | 4/26/1984 | See Source »

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