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"We didn't want to be heroes," Kaplan says. "Terrorists target places where Americans go." Goldman says his parents' fears, and not his own, will keep him on this side of the Atlantic for the summer. "I wasn't really worried, but they thought it was possible something would happen...

Author: By Arthur Rublin, | Title: Travelling and Trembling Over Terrorism | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

This may seem to contradict the main thesis, but Gay is not one of those little minds bothered by the hobgoblins of foolish consistency. And the Victorians were themselves contradictory. What other age could produce such an exemplar of pious perversity as Charles Kingsley, author of The Water-Babies and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Amen of the Universe the Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud; Volume Ii: the Tender Passion | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Similar changes in the TV scene, if not arousing quite the same fury, are common sights across Europe these days. Established government-owned -- and frequently dull -- networks are facing a feisty new array of commercial competitors. In Italy the state-owned RAI-TV has been joined by three popular networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Commercial TV, Mon Dieu! | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Getty's genius was for making and holding on to money. He began as a wildcatter in the Oklahoma oil fields with a stake from his oilman father George F. Getty. By buying leases cheap, J. Paul was able to parlay his luck into a million dollars by the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hazards of the Midas Touch the Great Getty by Robert Lenzne | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

The first element of the new interventionism was proclaimed in President Reagan's 1985 State of the Union address, and has become known as the Reagan Doctrine. The President pledged American support to "those who are risking their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet- supported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Bringing a Third Force to Bear | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

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