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The vast portraits of Marx and Engels, along with Stalin and Mao, in Tien an Men square somehow confirmed the conviction that it was absurd to let these people, or their like, seize the political initiative from us. When Americans take to sandals and posting up posters to Hindu divines...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: A Complex Place | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

The attachment of the Miller-Heimert school to historical fact--as imaged in the writings of Puritan divines--has obliged it to account the Puritan errand at least a partial failure. For these historians, the corruption of the communal vision led inevitably to the separation of individual and communal salvation...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Rescuing the Errand | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

No single designer speaks for the American look. None of the Americans, for example, as cunningly and consistently divines what women crave as France's Yves St. Laurent; none shows the innovative brilliance of such younger Parisian stars as Japanese-born Kenzo Takada. Fashion historians will probably look back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Chic In Fashion | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

America's First Ladies have, with a few exceptions, made it their business to be ornamental and decorously vague in their public utterances. The quiet, rather private Betty Ford may seem an unlikely candidate to break that tradition, although she has in the past stated some very definite opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE: On Being Normal | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

In the wake of Watergate, all sorts of cures, old and new, are being offered for the ills of the republic. While not quite a prescription, one arresting thought was put forth by the London Economist, inspired by the soothing pageantry of Princess Anne's wedding amid Britain'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Kingly Thought for the Day | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

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