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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Square by dozens of helmeted foot and mounted police. "Down with the treaty!" screamed the determined but orderly band. "Sadat is a traitor!" The chants were more audible to the sensitive TV microphones than to the live audience, and Walter Cronkite complained mildly to the world. Carter wrinkled his brow for a few minutes. The shouted dissents soon were muffled in the city sounds and largely forgotten. Protest is a way of life in Lafayette Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: In Celebration of Peace | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

...those who have been out of touch with this aspect of reality, what, exactly, is a Muppet? The word was coined from "marionette" and "puppet," says Jim Henson, 42, the skinny, bearded Zeus from whose brow the creatures began to spring 20-odd years ago, when he was a teen-ager hooked on television. He is the rarest of creatures in the imitative and adaptive world of entertainment, an originator. His brilliant central perception was that puppets could throw away the Punch and Judy box that had confined them for centuries and let the television set be their stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Those Marvelous Muppets | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...fate of man is sterner (than that of women). He, with superior strength and superior courage, breasts nature in her ruggedness, and wrings from her silent bosom, with the sweat of his brow the raw material...by which the long contest with death is made possible...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...have called the shots straight down the line. I am a farmer in the 300-to-400-acre bracket, and it is not enough anymore to work by the sweat of one's brow. The hard work now is pushing a pencil and a pocket calculator. Those who talk about our tractors with air conditioning and radios should know that we who still must drive a tractor must also plan and keep up with the changing markets on our radios...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1978 | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

153O: The battle is over. Duden drops her knapsack, takes off her helmet and wipes her brow. She starts digging a foxhole to make camp. "How you do really depends on what kind of woman you are," Duden says. "You have to be aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: She Goes on Maneuvers | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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