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...Liberal strategy was to depict Trudeau as the only leader with enough depth and experience to turn the economy around, maintain the authority of the central government and keep Quebec from breaking away. "In every important area of policy, Joe Clark doesn't know what the heck he is talking about," claimed Trudeau. Putting it more bluntly, one Trudeau aide told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John Scott: "The Conservatives' bottom line is that it's time for a change. Our bottom line is that Joe Clark is a nerd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: From Trudeau to Plain Joe | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...blooded Sioux, she read over 1200 ethnographies and wrote over 2000 pages. Beginning in 1967 the two translated all 2000 pages into pre-reservation Mahto only to retranslate back into English. They wanted to transmit the style and flavor of the ancient language as much as they wanted to depict the Mahto culture. They succeeded. Not only is Hanta Yo the best researched noyel yet written about an American Indian tribe, but it is also written in a unique style...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Perpetuating an American Stereotype | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

...ambiguities facing the nubile but nervous seventeen-year-old. But she skirts triteness when she sings a eulogy for her dead grandmother in one of the two "heavy" songs of the act. Reed, as Marion the sex-starved, and Rody, as Laura the oh-so-cute, faithfully depict their personality types' stereotypical reactions to predictable situations. However, they never get much beyond fairly rote descriptions of what people of their ilk ought to look like. Reed's smiles and breezy invitations, the tedious explanations she makes to her friends the morning after amuse, but don't linger. Rody, whose voice...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: Out of the Mouths of Babes | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...thanks to technology, they can document with snapshots the minutiae of their children's lives as exhaustively as Gesell and Spock have traced their development. The exhibition includes a number of such photos as well as the highly realistic work of Painters John Koch and Robert Bechtle, who depict children in casual poses: sitting around the pool with their parents or standing by the family Chevrolet. Less self-conscious than the old portraits, they remain, nonetheless, stored glimpses of the children's hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Changing Images of Childhood | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Elders in Congress and the Cabinet delight in deriding him as the symbol of what ails the Carter Administration. Gossip columnists depict him as oafish, lecherous or both. His marriage has ended in divorce. Yet, having absorbed enough torpedoes to sink the most buoyant of careers, Hamilton Jordan has done more than merely stay afloat as Jimmy Carter's most trusted aide. He has expanded his range in both administrative and policy matters and is now even scrubbing up his image. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Unsinkable Ham Jordan | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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