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...threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Escapes from the Gulag | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...keeping score," admitted a presidential aide. "We are looking at people who help us that we can help. But it doesn't mean we aren't helping others." The aide said the memo was "not accurate"−and even if it had been, "it was dumb to write it down." Declared Pinson, after the memo was obtained by TIME: "It is out of date. We have re-evaluated our plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter on the Offensive | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that she thinks cataracts are just the General Motors version of Lincoln Continentals...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...give you first of several examples, when my wife asked me for a trial separation, I didn't realize that she meant my shoulder. No Respect. Thanks. But today, you are all graduating, and therefore, Respect becomes an important thing. You know, my mother-in-law is so dumb that she thinks Harvard is a liberal arts college in the Northeast... This reminds me of the time I was walking down the street just over there in Harvard Square recently and I got run over by a car... The car was moving so fast that despite the neighborhood that...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: NO RESPECT | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb, and saw their chance to ram a pro-company contract down the union's throat." Added another small operator: "I figure you get a lot further by courting your men instead of cussing them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Operators: Divided | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

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