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...European Court is expected to condemn the practice this spring, forcing Britain to outlaw birching on the isle. The Manx are not likely to submit meekly. A petition backing birching was signed by 31,000 of Man's 45,000 voters. Facing self-government claims from all sides, the British would do well to keep in mind that many islanders are descended from fiercely independent Viking marauders. Nearly 200 years ago, a Manx descendant named Fletcher Christian aboard the H.M.S. Bounty led the most famous of all mutinies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

Neverthless, while cautioning against "consumer" psychiatry and religion, Cox does not condemn a "search for identity" outright. He wishes to prevent its manipulation by the materialistic elements he sees as basic to American social structure. God, Cox declares: "liberates the oppressed by enabling them to liberate themselves...Anything else feeds the kind of millenial fantasies which have kept the poor in bondage for centuries...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...American museum. Doubtless there is some ideological reluctance. Though the cold war is formally over, not too many U.S. museum directors are ready to confront their more conservative trustees with large comic-strip gouaches bearing titles like Occupying the Ideological-Cultural Field in the Countryside and Workers Condemn the "Gang of Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Arcadians of Huhsien County | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...does so without losing its sense of humor. Murray Burns (George Miller), its rebellious and endearing hero, is an unemployed scriptwriter sickened by the necessity to toady to an imbecilic boss. He conducts a one-man protest against hypocrisy and convention, cultivating an air of lunacy to satirize and condemn the emptiness of those who relinquish their freedom for security. Murray holds spirited conversations with the Weather Lady, warning her not to repeat herself, thinks nothing of taking trips to the Statue of Liberty, and habitually admonishes his unheeding neighbors to show up for the next community sing. Murray constructs...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: All The World's ... | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...together at a Geneva peace conference, presumably this year. At his press conference last week, Carter deplored the heavy loss of life, but he declined to single out Israel for striking what had obviously turned out to be civilian targets. "The overriding consideration," the President said, "is not to condemn Israel at this point for retaliation, but just to say that if the provocations were absent then the retaliation would have been unnecessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Border Violence, Hands of Peace | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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