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...relation to Christianity. I think we should be careful, while shouting "Antichrist" and getting upset at the "abduction" of young people, to realize that they are some of the most loving, intelligent, talented and caring people I know. They are searching hard for some eternal values in a chaotic world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 1, 1975 | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...answer, instead, is what Hougan calls decadence, which in turn, despite its bad name, is actually a kind of style, "multi-dimensional, coherent and complex." It involves making choices in a flamboyant and self-indulgent way--the best way to spend one's time while waiting for the chaotic forces of history to wash over society. Since changing the inexorable and self-controlling march of technique is futile, the best thing to do is give up, look out for yourself, have a good time and hope that the apocalypse will do more good than harm...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Decline and Fall | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...series of unpopular, unprincipled anticommunists who supported America's systematic destruction of their own nation. America's rhetoric looks awfully hollow now, for America's "humanitarian" aid to the Vietnamese stopped at the same time this spring as its political allies were ousted, when Vietnam was at its most chaotic and needy. It seems clear now that all that ever concerned the U.S. government was its own military, political, and economic interests and that those interests were in direct conflict with the welfare of the Vietnamese. It is horrible, almost beyond imagining, that America now feels not the slightest pangs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reparations For Vietnam | 10/29/1975 | See Source »

...country with cargo headaches. In Iran, ships wait up to three months to dock at Persian Gulf ports, trucks are backed up at border customs checkpoints and valuable military supplies are rusting away out on the sand or in warehouses while authorities try to process them. "It resembles a chaotic flea market," says one U.S. Pentagon officer. An aide to Defense Secretary James Schlesinger has been sent to Tehran to help unclog the backlog in order to make way for still more supplies, including the first of 80 F-14 Tomcats, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: The Cement Block | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

While the Head is not much more than a chaotic cruise of the Charles for the near 3000 oarsfolk participating, there are those who love to look at it as a telltale prefiguring of the Spring rowing scene...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Crews, Chaos Converge for Head of the Charles | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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