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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...language of 1936 sounds like the outcry of dissent today, Dos Passos would have none of it now. In fairly familiar disenchantment, Dos Passos turned against Communism in the 1930s. By the '60s, he was voting for Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater. To Dos Passos, big labor and centralized Government had replaced "the big-money boys" as the American villains. But the most consistent theme in his life was a vaguely anarchic impulse, a craving for individuality which no ideology could permanently satisfy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: A Darkling Whitman | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...reduce voluntarily its commitments and its military establishment overseas because of a realistic assessment of what a great power can and should do to influence the affairs of other nations. It is far different when such a retrenchment is seen as impelled by outside powers or internal dissent. That could be taken as a sign of weakness. Increasingly concerned that the Soviet Union and others may hold just such a view of the U.S. today, Richard Nixon last week used his European trip to stress U.S. strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon Abroad: Applause and Admonitions | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...Acheson rotten apples were converted to falling dominoes by Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Dean Rusk embraced the theory throughout Kennedy and Johnson presidencies and Nixon dragged them forcefully to the fore when antiwar dissent rose. The rotten apple and domino visions of the world struggle could be defended in their time, but realities have changed, notably America's relative power vis-ŕ-vis the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union's own role in the Communist movement. In the heady days after the war, Americans felt, as French Journalist André Fontaine says, "that they were the best, most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Mid East: Search for Stability | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

...elite presidential commission directed to find the underlying causes of campus disruptions completed its search last week and found some blame everywhere-in student bodies harnessing violence to dissent, in police adding brutality to law enforcement, and in a President who alone can provide the leadership to reunite a dangerously polarized nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: On Campus: Blame Enough for All | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

Blackmun may also cast the tie-breaking vote in a series of cases that will illuminate the constitutional limits of protest and dissent. While the Warren Court largely avoided the chore of setting new First Amendment rules, suggests Yale's Alexander Bickel, events may now force the court to face such issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Blackmun's Baptism | 10/5/1970 | See Source »

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