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Intentionally vague about his political ideas, he claims to be a simple "union man." But his political goal seems to be an amalgam of Christian socialism and Polish nationalism. He has read Alexander Solzhenitsyn and shares his views of both Communist and capitalist shortcomings. "No system must make people forget that they are human beings," says Walesa. Then he adds enigmatically: "My own plans are far-reaching, but it is too early to reveal them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: He Gave Us Hope | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...sounds like the makings of an interesting movie, especially given the connections with Simon's real-life career, but in trying to weave together the dilemma of Jonah's private and professional lives, the movie touches superficially on many issues without clearly defining any of them. It becomes an amalgam of tension-filled scenes that often bear little relation to one another and that rarely reach any resolution...

Author: By William F. Powers, | Title: Mellow but Righteous | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...Harvard people embrace individual Mormon ethics and metaphysics of James, Royce, Whitehead, Santayana, Hocking; eschew the worst cleave to the best of pilgrim fathers--in a moral commitment equal to the intellectual: you can transcend modern man into a dramatic new amalgam, generating a powerful and irresistible public mood, in which the weakest and most derelict find it easy to do right and hard to do wrong. Henry Ratliff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SISTER/BRO. AMERICANS-- | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...lead is so small, well within the range of a possible sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, as to be almost meaningless, particularly since it is not the popular vote that determines who shall be the next President. A "national" election, of course, is really an amalgam of elections in the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the winner has to assemble a combination of 270 or more electoral votes. Estimates by TIME correspondents show Reagan leading in states with 246 electoral votes, Carter in states with only 159. But many of the leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Down the Stretch | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...clumsy attempt to satirize almost every woman who has a good job and a little ambition. It is set in the offices of a woman's magazine that publishes articles on both "Sexual Harassment and the Working Woman" and "17 Ways with Tuna Fish." The boss is an amalgam of famous woman editors - a sort of Helen Gloria Vreeland. But the moment a token male (Lawrence Pressman) joins the staff, the gals go man-crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Bodies in Question | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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