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...year budget cycles -- all of which are going nowhere in Congress. The Reagan message is simple. "In the critical matchup between those who want to keep spending your money and raising your taxes, and those of us who resist a return to the old policies . . . we have now reached breakpoint," he said in his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: We Have Reached Breakpoint | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

...Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time when new science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Nixes VES Grade Change | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time when new science...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Professor Charged With Assault On Students | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time when new science...

Author: By Holly A. Idklson, | Title: University Hedges On Third World Activities | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...Education of Henry Adams," was still widely read as an American classic in 1958--arrived at Harvard College exactly 100 years ahead of us, in 1854. He complained later in life that he had been caught on the wrong side of a kind of historical fault line, the breakpoint between two tectonic plates. Great-grandson of the second President of the United States and grandson of the sixth, he was equipped by birth with all that 18th century American had to offer. Yet he had to live almost all of his life, Adams complained, in a time when new science...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: When Men Were Men and Women Were Wives | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

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