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...Will). Now 74 and a photographer of the black African people of the Sudan, Riefenstahl still prefers to surround herself and her subjects with clouds of Sturm und Drang. Last year's volume, The Last of the Nuba, photographically displayed Mesakin tribesmen as statuary reminiscent of the heroic Mussolini-modern style of the 1930s. People of Kau is as technically dazzling as the Nuba book, though once again Riefenstahl succumbs to the bizarre and the theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GIFT BOOKS | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...decision is "a very important and heroic first step toward eliminating victimless crimes," Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, said yesterday. He added that he believes it is "terribly important" for "one judge to be willing to go out on a limb" for the cause of individual freedom...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Judge Voids Cocaine Laws | 12/11/1976 | See Source »

Prestigious Prize. Last week the public health officers who waged that heroic global effort received one of medicine's highest accolades. The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation awarded a special prize to the World Health Organization (WHO) in recognition of its decade-long smallpox-eradication program. Even while they were accepting the prestigious $10,000 award in Manhattan last week, WHO Director-General Halfdan Mahler of Denmark and the Cleveland-born chief of the eradication program, Dr. Donald A. Henderson, were in touch with aides in the East African nation of Somalia, where the last two known cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Prize for the Conquerors | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Director Joseph Wilkins, rumored to be assuming a new name after the show closes, has chosen to do Richard Wilbur's poetic translation in a twentieth century setting. The light, witty eighteenth century elegance of Wilbur's heroic couplets is totally out of place and soon becomes tiresome droning. Add to this a genuinely ugly set that is half a caricature of art deco and half a clumsy imitation of seventies Manhattan townhouse elegance. Pile on costumes that range from late Victorian decadent fopperty to Gatsby-esque knickers and then to late sixties hippy uniforms. This confusion...

Author: By R. E. Liebmann, | Title: Two Instances of Misguided Moliere | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Most Receptions: 36. Although this record did not take place during the game, a word must be mentioned about the heroic postgame performance of Yale undergraduate Dooley Stegaropolis in 1972. "Dilled Dooley," as he is now known, although then a stranger to Cambridge, promptly established himself by popping into every after-game Happy Hour from Jellybeans at "Jacks" to coffee and doughnuts in Gutman Library...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Records Made To Be Kept | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

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