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The play lives or dies with the lead characters: Red Ryder, a young man trapped in a small town in New Mexico who puts on a James Dean, grease-and-tattoos front of tough independence to hide his inability to break free of his oppressive life; Teddy, a disaffected, belligerant...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: An American Nightmare | 8/18/1978 | See Source »

Although some venturesome bookies rate the Conservatives as 6-to-4 favorites, most opinion polls show the two parties running virtually neck-and-neck; this is a triumph of sorts for Labor, which two years ago was trailing by 22 points. A key question for the government, however, is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Undeclared Campaign | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

It looked as if ole George was leaving politics after 16 years as the self-styled message-bearer of disaffected Americans. His longtime sparring partners in the press wrote smug political obituaries. Said the New York Times: "His were the resentful people, who wave flags and are frightened by those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Short Goodbye | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Gromyko may have kept a moderate tone in part to avoid provoking excessive reaction at this week's NATO summit in Washington, where the 15 members are scheduled to consider a "longterm defense program" to meet the Soviet arms threat over the next 15 years. Though some quarreling among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Coping with the Global Minefield | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

In his first foray into presidential politics in 1964, Wallace proved extraordinarily popular not only in the South but among disaffected whites in the North too. He asked them to "send a message to Washington." He promised to "shake the eye teeth of the . . . pointy-headed bureaucrats." He galloped along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Wallace Quits | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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