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But the audience was not in a mood for mellow ballads--they came to be rocked, numbed and dazzled. Winter left no discontent.

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: White Lightening | 12/5/1973 | See Source »

After a soft summer and a brilliant fall, this promises to be Europe's cruelest winter of discontent. Like America, Europe has celebrated more than a quarter-century of spiraling conspicuous consumption, and it is not mentally prepared to do without. Cars clog the cities. Lights burn through the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Toward a Winter of Discontent | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

In the early 1970s, as a writer for LIFE, she began to travel back and forth across the U.S. talking to all sorts of women. Strong currents of discontent were already running. Were women finding new roles or clinging to the old ones, and with what degree of satisfaction? Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girls' Realm | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

One London newspaper described it as "a mad final fling before the winter of our discontent." For one brief shining moment last week, Britain forgot its economic troubles and basked in the splendid and stirring pageantry of a royal wedding. Before 1,500 invited guests and a television audience of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Anne's Day: Simply Splendid | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Lagging Behind. The crux of Medvedev's argument is that in the long run "the basic impulses for democratization of the U.S.S.R. must emerge from Soviet society itself." The right kind of Russian leader, he implies, could marshal enormous support "from below" because of widespread discontent over "the slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Voice of Discontent | 11/19/1973 | See Source »

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