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I have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: Grader's Reply: It's Not Really That Easy | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

Probably it is necessary for us to have heroes so that, by inoculation, we will learn to distrust heroes. Baseball idols peddling autographs at $15 a scribble provide this useful disillusion today. A few decades ago, the clay feet -- frostbitten, of course -- were those of polar explorers. Wally Herbert, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Polar Heroics and Delusions | 7/31/1989 | See Source »

As the old Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were...

Author: By Mansu Qian, | Title: China's Great Awakening | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

I have, I must confess, serious doubts about the efficacy--or even the integrity--of the "classic" exam period editorial, "Beating the System" you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called "Donald Carswell '50" of being rather one of Us--the Bad Guys--than one of you. If your...

Author: By A Grader, | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

Most of all, there is disillusion and frustration. Sergeant Zeke Anderson (Terence Knox), the sympathetic Everysoldier in Tour of Duty, confides to his ex-wife his feelings about the war: "It's just like everything you hear. It's death and destruction, it's hell on earth, it's twisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: War As Family Entertainment | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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