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...Democracy carries within its breast the seed of its own destruction. There is a saying that 'democracy has to be bathed occasionally in blood so that it can continue to be democracy.' Fortunately this is not our case. There have been only a few drops...
...homemade shorts, cussing herself on the court in most unladylike fashion and eating too much ice cream. When she was 16 she finally began private lessons; Alice Marble took her on as a protegee. Two years later, Billie Jean achieved instant recognition at Wimbledon by upsetting the top seed, Margaret Smith (later Mrs. Court...
...midnight--The Wild Seed. Perhaps Michael Parks is my Achilles heel when it comes to reviewing. Despite his failure with a television series, a short-lived singing career, and a string of otherwise nondescript films, I maintain he has talent, and this is his best performance. If you try to remember that he is trying neither to be Brando or Dean, it is clear that he can act with a style his own. The film is harsh: black and white, loud brass background music, offbeat camera angles, and is something of a low-budget epic, the story of a middle...
Harvard was shocked when the Ford Foundation said that the "seed [temporary] money," (approximately $500,000) for East Asian Studies would cease in 1975, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday. For almost 20 years Ford has provided "seed money," presumably to sustain EAS until the university could secure endowed funding...
...next step is for Chicago's people to respond to the plan in public hearings. Then the planners recommend that a limited-dividend company with public and private ownership be set up to hold land, coordinate the projects and raise most of the seed money-all tasks beyond the scope of ordinary developers. Initial funds could come from the sale of special revenue bonds. Later, income from completed projects could be used to underwrite more improvements elsewhere in the city...