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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nowadays the ghetto can be as chic as Fifth Avenue. In their self-indulgent militancy, black playwrights of Van Peebles' frenzied stamp like to think that they are raising welts on The Man's conscience. Actually, they are catering to a masochistic mea culpa claque and assorted liberal breast beaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Brechticm Harlem | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

Bayh cut short his undeclared candidacy not because of his disastrously low standing in the polls-which had lately not even bothered to list him -but because of a sudden personal blow. His wife Marvella, a vivacious blonde of 38, had just undergone "critical" surgery for cancer of the breast. "At a time when our nation so desperately needs to reorder its priorities," said Bayh, swallowing deeply, "it is time for me to reorder my own priorities. I must put first things first. My wife Marvella and her well-being and rapid recovery are more important to me than seeking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Exit Bayh | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

...poems, "Witch Burning," one of the better works in the collection, and "Whitsun", an unimpressive piece, she sees herself as an American heroine with a Scarlet Letter on her breast. At times she rings of Emily Dickinson, "A bodiless soul could pass another soul. In this clear air and never notice it--", from the "Widow" a poem of the fantasies of grief clearly about her mother. A much less proficient poem "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" recalls in tone and subject to Robert Frost's "Dust of Snow" about the crow and the saving of a day he had rued...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: Sylvia Plath's Inferno | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

...ovulation failure) should be carefully checked for precancerous signs. Ingraham has also suggested to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it forbid outright the prescribing of stilbestrol during pregnancy. This type of compound is still considered valuable for men with prostate cancer and for some cases of breast cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormonal Time Bomb? | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

...ponderously claimed that breast feeding combats "the current wave of public indecency that threatens to undermine and destroy Western civilization." Besides that, she added, "We are in favor of everything that touches children." ··· Onetime Actress Betty Furness, who made art and a career out of opening refrigerator doors on television, had hopes of helping befuddled consumers when she accepted a job advising New York Governor Rockefeller on consumer affairs. But in her new job she got cold shoulders without getting near a refrigerator. "Industry in New York State does not advise legislators, it controls them," explained Betty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 26, 1971 | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

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