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...uninspired by an old-style Washington insider who offered no stirring vision. Baker, who would probably be prime minister today if the U.S. had a parliamentary system of government, hopes to run for President again. Even those closest to the congressional brat from Hunts ville feel that his special blend of talents is best suited to the job he now holds. Says one of Baker's close friends: "If you're looking for a guy with a banner to lead the country, that's not him. He is a pro's pro. Howard may have better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Floor Is My Domain | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

...measure the left too-willingly backed the communists in Vietnam. But that is a far cry from agreeing with Podhoretz that the U.S. background the rights with Translating ideals into something real will continue to be hard work: it is though a much more noble task than shedding the blend of the innocent in supported an evil status...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Most Dangerous Wave | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...look back on past opening days, they all seem to blend together into one cold, rainy memory. Every year I trek to Fenway with visions of summer--and each year I leave certain that I've contracted pneumonia...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Lunch With the Red Sox | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

Gracious and smiling, Reagan applied his blend of amiability and toughness at a lunch on Capitol Hill last week with most of the Senate's 53 Republicans. Any air of confrontation evaporated as he told the Senators: "Together I believe we can hold down taxes, hold down spending and ensure a national defense that is able to preserve the peace." He said that he would be happy to consider any bipartisan plan that meets those standards, adding: "When we have honest differences, you can count on me to be willing to listen." Declared Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing It Cool or Frozen in Ice? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...teen-age schoolgirls violate the sanctity of the room and go AWOL from their parents' code by valiantly swigging a blend of gin, vodka and Fresca. In a duel of social proprieties, a daughter defies her mother's edict that she attend a dance that will enhance her status in the Junior League and opts to attend a performance of Saint Joan with her spinster aunt. Still later, as an Amherst student photographs his aunt's chinaware in the room, he tells her that he is doing an anthropology paper on "the eating habits of vanishing cultures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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