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Manipulation of the overseers election, censorship of the CUE Guide, not to mention turning the other eye while minority concerns slip through the cracks, are all uglier marks in the landscape of University policy than ever the shanties could have been in the Yard. A good listener like Jewett is...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Jewett's Open Door | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

Acting captivates Sheedy, and she wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

The idea of "no free speech for murderers" is flawed on a second count. It conceives of speech as a one-sided activity which is granted or denied an individual on the basis of his actions. But speech is an interactive endeavor, involving both speaker and listener. And by denying...

Author: By Robert A. Katz, | Title: Not So Simple | 4/5/1986 | See Source »

There is down deep near every President's gizzard an errant SOB that on some dark day rises and bursts from the fellow's lips, scattering either delight or dismay across the land, depending on the state of each listener's soul.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Son of a . . . | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

If he is not bad enough when verging on implosion, woe betide the listener once he gets his confidence and begins sharing his interests with the audiences. "The most fascinating thing," he says with a disconcerting zeal, "is that the larvae don't actually eat the dung, but absorb it...

Author: By Benjamin N. Smith, | Title: Professing Some Hatred | 3/11/1986 | See Source »

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