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...that idea will have to compete with the alternatives that young rebels have already devised???the drug culture, group-marriage communes, "free universities"?many of them a courageous if mindless search for competence and humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

Ideally, decisions concerning complicated weaponry?and the Sentinel system is one of the most complicated ever devised???should be the quiet business of Government: its civilian leaders, military men and scientists. That has not been so with the ABM, as the defensive system is now known. The question of whether the U.S. should install an ABM network?and how extensive that network should be?has suddenly become a national issue that has immense strategic, political and social ramifications for the American people and perhaps the rest of the world. The debate over that issue, warned New York Republican Senator Jacob...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ABM: A NUCLEAR WATERSHED | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Playboy of Paris (Paramount). Maurice Chevalier works busily at this loose-jointed comedy which fulfills fairly adequately the purpose for which it was obviously devised???that of giving him moments for informal songs and for his characteristic attitudes. It tells about a waiter in a little Paris cafe who makes love to all the women customers and becomes the centre of much Gallic plotting when he inherits a million francs. One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit. For the rest, Playboy of Paris is notable chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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