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Reagan accomplished his landslide partly because of his masterly exploitation of the American mood. He both contributed to the sense of optimism and purpose and profited from it. In a way, he also benefited from two developments in the Democratic Party: the candidacies of Jesse Jackson and Geraldine Ferraro. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Proud Again: Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

For decades, the landscape of subtropical disillusion has been so identified with one writer that it is commonly referred to as Greeneland. But Graham Greene's burnt-out cases are rapidly being replaced by Latin American protagonists and European figures who have a fresher story to tell. Detrez is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conflagrations | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

The play therefore, is somewhat inaccessible to present day sensibility Composed in the far away dawn of the television era, the play juxtaposes how oppressive the deadening hilarity of sitcom is next to a drama which probes the validity of all its characters feelings. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry impresses any audience...

Author: By John P. Oconnor, | Title: Universal Love Story | 5/2/1984 | See Source »

On Tuesday April 17, Radcliffe President released her statement on the Pi Eta Newsletter, calling is "shocking" and an "affront to the human dignity and sensibility of every thoughtful woman and man who understands the nature of a free and humane society." Horner went on to state that the newsletter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delayed Reaction | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

On his relations with the press: "I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far . . . One of the reasons that I think most of our 'media friends' rather miss me is that they just can't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nixon Tapes | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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