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The last time I was there I went to visit a friend who lives in a building in the French Quarter that everyone calls The Skyscraper because it is four stories tall and when it was built 150 years ago it was the highest building in town. It's now...

Author: By Micholas Lemann, | Title: New Orleans, City of Dreams | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

Of course there is always the more than likely possibility that Harvard will win in court and the same lack of visibility that has haunted Mission Hill people in the past will plague them again. Harvard will then go ahead and build a power plant on top of anybody it...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: wee shall be as a City upon a Hill | 7/11/1975 | See Source »

Ludvik Vaculik's novel The Guinea Pigs (NY: Third Press) is a most brilliant venture in the Kafka-esque vein. Like Joseph K. in The Trail, Vaculik's hero is a bank employee. He lives a petty monotonous life with his wife Eva, "two tolerable little boys" and a couple...

Author: By Jacques D. Rupnik, | Title: The Politics of Culture in Czechoslovakia | 5/20/1975 | See Source »

Then, with stunning suddenness, the war burst upon the U.S. all over again. Hué, Danang, Pleiku, Kontum-hearing the names once more is like suffering a relapse of some virulent disease. It is impossible for Americans to regard the flow of refugees and the anguish of the orphans without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: HOW SHOULD AMERICANS FEEL? | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Died. Norman Treigle, 47, New York City Opera's deeply resonant bass since 1953; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in New Orleans. A devout Baptist, Treigle once sang gospel songs with a touring evangelist known as "the Chaplain of Bourbon Street"; his first lead role at City Opera, a guilt-haunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1975 | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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