Word: critics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
Without a Trace. A number of dissidents have reportedly been confined to lunatic asylums for expressing unorthodox opinions. Hundreds have been arrested or put under constant police surveillance. Among the most recent targets is Physicist Robert Havemann, an open critic of East Germany's Communist regime. Seized late last month at his home outside East Berlin, he is being held under stringent house arrest. Another victim is a leading East German writer, Jürgen Fuchs, who disappeared without a trace after the police kidnaped him on a busy street in broad daylight...
...apparent purpose of the new crackdown is to so intimidate the country's intellectuals that they will stop the embarrassing practice of criticizing Party Boss Erich Honecker's regime from inside East Germany. A case in point is Balladeer Wolf Biermann, 40, a poet and songster who regards himself as a dedicated Communist and actually emigrated from West Germany to East Germany in 1953 because he wanted to live in a Communist-run state. Since then he has become an outspoken critic of what he regards as East Berlin's distortion of Marxism, and accuses the East...
...applaud TIME's giving credit to its staff members for the cover story on Charlie's Angels: Editor Martha Duffy, Critic Richard Schickel, et al. It is a pity the same generosity was not extended to whoever created the series. Starting from the blank page, Ben Roberts and I wrote the script and then produced the "slick pilot," which then became a series...
That's fanaticism. And Henry Miller is not fanatic about anything, not even sex. Curiously enough, under the macho veneer of the critic's voice lies a kind of prudery. That Miller sublimates murderous inclinations into lust is plausible. But this camphorous old wives' tale--or old codger's tale, say--evinces fear of female sexuality. Mailer's near hysterical protestation of a woman's weakness fronts for an appalled reaction to her spongy, devouring vagina and the ballooning mystery of her womb...