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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...view, the Board of Directors and not the stockholders of a corporation constitute the proper body for the determination of difficult questions of allocation of resources," the statement read...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Corporation Votes Proxy Favoring GM Management | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...educational reform. The reform frees lycee (secondary school) students, who take their first modern foreign language at the age of eleven, from the obligation of starting a second language when they are 13. The government's intention was benign: to lighten what Paris pedagogues have come to view as an excessively heavy academic burden. Instead, the idea has stirred up fierce opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Killing Living Languages | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...satisfied with just knowing English," argued the conservative newspaper L'Aurore, "why shouldn't other countries be too?" In this view, the new policy may finish off French as the international language of diplomacy, elegance and love. If the French learn only English, their neighbors in Italy, Germany and Spain may very well quit learning French in favor of English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Killing Living Languages | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...short, Miller takes a one-sided view of the play, but it is a strong side. For one thing, it makes the play more than ever Shylock's play. And as Shylock, Miller has Laurence Olivier-at 62, performing the role for the first time in his career. In keeping with the period setting, Olivier does away with the hooked nose, greasy locks and biblical rantings that have served stage Shylocks down through the centuries. His is a Jew who has come out of the ghetto and into his own, proving that you can teach an old dog nouveau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A 19th Century Shylock | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...zaniest play he wrote is now on view off Broadway. What the Butler Saw is basically a Feydeauan farce. Like the great French playwright, Orton recognized that a closed door is funnier, and maybe even more erotic, than an open bed. Orton, like Feydeau, understood that logic carried to its logical conclusion is madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughtime in Bedlam | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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