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...troubled times. Americans should not be nostalgic for a lost, largely illusory and certainly irretrievable tune when the U.S. always got its way in the world. The more worthy and certainly more salutary objects of nostalgia are a mood of cautious optimism and a can-do faith in American abil ities. That mood and that faith can be restored. Once restored, they will help greatly hi defining a new role for America as a super power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Rebuild the Image | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...captures surfaces: the high-charged energy of a concert, the languor and uncertainty that comes with getting it all before you have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork, a rock chorale dedicated to sanctifying women and fea turing the composer himself - singing like an androgynous elf, surrounded by hundreds of young girls, dressed in brid al gowns and crooning fervently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Glory Road | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

...accunation of imporiallam would effective cold war propaganda, he planned. If the United States exhibited pager an to interfers in addition, Radolph stressed importance of people with the abil both to appreciate and to adapt to cultures advocated in anthropology and psychology...

Author: By William D., | Title: Experts List Proposals For Africa Peace Corps | 2/20/1961 | See Source »

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