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Too bad Welles couldn't have graciously ceded the spotlight to deHory, instead of forcing himself, and his own legerdemain, to center stage. He keeps butting--reciting from Kipling, lumbering through fog in Ireland, gluttoning himself with oysters and steaks. Somehow this went over big in Europe, where F for...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

Neither the social nor the personal violence of the 1960s was a new feature of American life. Many historians consider the pre-Revolutionary period one of the most violent these shores have seen. Some of the turmoil, necessary for protest, had a point. Much more of it was pointless. Vigilantism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Vice and Virtue: Our Moral Condition | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

President Bok explained that the group was trying to convey the feeling that "students are not apathetic toward this war." But surely, in an hour and a half of head-butting with Presidential Advisor Henry Kissinger, Bok and the other presidents must have realized that this road of protest has...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: First the Path, now a Deadend | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

HE WAS, we decided, a man of prodigious endurance and good nature to resume his obliging cocktail-party manner after an already long evening. There he remained until well after midnight, still standing, talking to whomever could get a word in, turning his wit to whatever challenge was offered, land...

Author: By Bill Beckett, | Title: "God Bless Drinking In Public" | 4/20/1972 | See Source »

The President faces two challengers, Pete McCloskey on the left and John Ashbrook on the right, but no real challenge to his renomination. But the opposition camp is alive, in the best brawling tradition of the party of Andrew Jackson, with the sound of head-butting. A baker's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How to Run for President in 1972 | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

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