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...final selections from the 273 photographs originally considered for the exhibition. "But it turned out to be a signal addition to the dozens of photo and cover-art shows that we've organized over the past 14 years." Indeed, Johnson is already mapping out a travel route for the '80s collection, which is expected to join other TIME photo exhibits currently on display or ticketed < for such cities as Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Cannes and Hong Kong...
...swiftness. One moment, the pageant of Reaganism was proceeding, with brilliant fireworks over the harbor. The next moment, the Iranian scandal burst up through the floorboards. Strange blackbirds of policy flapped out of the White House basement. The Reagan Administration, the phenomenon that had defined so much of the '80s, that had given the decade its agenda and style, seemed to collapse in a bizarre shambles...
...Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer went on witch- hunts for Bolsheviks. The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles. America closed down Ellis Island and slammed the door against new immigration. What followed in the '20s was the "era of good feeling," a period with some resemblance to Reagan's '80s...
...There was always the suspicion that because Gardner's books were set in the 1960's and reflected the turbulence of that period so well, they were somehow limited to that time. Yet even though we are now in the latter half of the the supposedly calm and reflective '80s, The Sunlight Dialogues, first published in 1972, is as fresh and pertinent as ever...
Another difference: today's volunteerism is imbued with an '80s entrepreneurship and conservatism that include carefully defined goals and evaluation procedures. Schools such as Rice University and Georgetown have / hired full-time service coordinators to foster student involvement and match volunteers with community agencies and projects. Networks have been established to pass along information. Campus Compact, started in 1985 by three university presidents, now comprises 259 colleges. COOL, Campus Outreach Opportunity League, run by a former Harvard volunteer, embraces 250 schools. Harvard's Phillips Brooks House Association, the nation's oldest college community-service organization, is a model...