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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CRITICIZING the theories on crime of James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, is like dissecting an elephant: you know what you want to do, but where do you start? Neither a criminologist nor a sociologist, Wilson said last week that his interest in crime came about "entirely (through) a...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Wilson's New Freedom | 11/23/1976 | See Source »

To reduce the danger of ambushes, the Rhodesians burn the tinder-dry brush, but heavy rains have fallen lately, and the foliage is defying their efforts. Between burnt-out patches, we caught occasional glimpses of soldiers in full battle gear breasting through deep elephant grass, rifles at the ready. Small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Relax, but Keep Your Speed Up' | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Petunia Power. For example, the Forget-Me-Not computer, which will next appear at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, was financed, with extraordinary largesse, by Honeywell, the for-real computer manufacturer-and is a hilarious sendup of the whole electronic-brain industry. It comes in three parts -"like Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Gothic-Kinetic Merlin of Wild Goose Cottage | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

The issues for each candidate do not seem to be solutions to unemployment, energy, etc., but whether he is an elephant or an ass.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

The protagonist of Autumn, a patriarch who is all South American dictators compounded into one, shuffles with his flat feet "like a senile elephant" through his declining years, remembering all that he has sown and reaped, left untouched or blighted. We watch his powers slowly rot over seemingly endless time...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Memories of a Senile Elephant | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

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