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November 29, 1983 - Elizabeth Hall Janeway, author and women's movement activist, speaking at Minnesota Meeting in St. Paul. Janeway’s address was on the topic "Women's Rights as Human Rights." After speech, Janeway answered audience questions. Janeway is currently at work on a book on the axioms of power titled, "Improper Behavior." Her other works include "Cross Sections from a Decade of Change" and "Man's World, Woman's Place," among others. Janeway is a graduate of Barnard College where she is a trustee. She has been a visiting professor at Yale University and UCLA. Minnesota Meeting is a non-profit corporation which hosts a wide range of public speakers. It is managed by the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
December 15, 1983 - Edwin "Ed" Meese, III (born December 2, 1931) is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration (1967-1974), the Reagan Presidential Transition Team (1980), and the Reagan White House (1981-1985), eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of the United States (1985-1988).
December 23, 1983 - Truman Capote reads his story "A Christmas Memory"Narration by Truman Capote with music.
January 3, 1984 - Part Two of the George Orwell radio biography, "In Search of Poverty".The years 1927-1936 are covered. Scenes in Paris and London find the hopeful writer in search of a subject. As Orwell matures as a writer, his social commitment growns. He marries Eileen O'Shaugnessy.
January 30, 1984 - Twin Cities poet Roseann Lloyd reads from her work as part of a series of readings presented by COMPAS. She read in conjunction with novelist Alice Walker at The Saint Paul Hotel.
March 2, 1984 - John R. Borchert and Judith A. Martin, co-authors of the book "Legacy of Minneapolis: Preservation Amid Change", answer listener questions about efforts to preserve the city's heritage of architecture and design.
April 20, 1984 - Twin Cities community theater is discussed by Sarah Lawless of the Children's Theater and Jack Reuler of Mixed Blood Theater.
April 24, 1984 - Minneapolis Star Tribune food columnist Al Sicherman talks about food, writing and humor.
July 5, 1984 - MPR’s Tom Meersman takes a look at A Prairie Home Companion as the show celebrates its 10th anniversary. Report includes interviews with Margaret Moos, Ray Marklund and Garrison Keillor.
August 5, 1984 - Written by Jan Hartman CBC Radio Sunday Matinee August 5, 1984It is not the bang, but the whimper of isolate mankind in the treatment of nuclear war which will be brought to us on CBC radio on Sunday August 5th. American playwright Jan Hartman has written a script to fire our imaginations, not with the drama of nuclear war in which the survivors go nobly on to create a better world, but with the senselessness of the pride which could cause such desolation.The message of the play comes through devastatingly, not in the predictable rhetoric of the opposing sides, nor in the ever more disorganized weather/radiation reports, but in the plaintive cry of a despairing survivor, "Can anyone hear me?" It becomes apparent that this is the essence both of the play and of the peace movement. How does anyone get the world to listen, to fInd a different direction while that is still possible.