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After reading your article on President Mitterrand, I see that we have no need to meddle in a situation that is not our own. The French will destroy France without our help, and I believe we owe them the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...owe it to ourselves to start with the extreme subjectivists," he chortles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Maryland: Adolescents, Aristotle and Adler | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

Hardest of all is their total dependence on July himself. They owe him their lives, yet the Smaleses find it galling that the servant has become their master. He insists on keeping the keys to the van; they do not want to trust him with this power over their fates. He still maintains the routine of serving them, bringing them tea in the morning and shopping for supplies; they wonder if this behavior is not reproachful, a way of setting them apart from the life of the village. The white wife cannot join the women in their daily routines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Future Tense | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

...willing to make his name public for the sake of organizing for gay rights, other privately gay students timidly sought him out as a confidante. In the next four years, Schatz became a folk hero and a sign of a change in the political climate. "We all owe Ben a great deal of gratitude," one gay graduate who asked that his name not be identified, says, adding. "He is a symbol for the politically aware generation...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Gay Rights: The Emergence of a Student Movement | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

Undergraduates already owe the ART a great deal. Students have performed many small parts in ART shows and a couple of middling ones; no doubt as the acting curriculum expands, and they take advantage of it, they will move into more prominent roles. The existence of that curriculum itself is a boon made possible only through the presence of Brustein and his company. The general survey course offered this year will need revision to be successful; the more advanced acting, directing and criticism courses, however, all went far towards proving that theater is a valid, important academic pursuit...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: ART in Retrospect: Textual Ethics | 6/3/1981 | See Source »

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