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The range of human achievement thus obscured is far too vast to list. Examples of sexual variation include Socrates, Plato, Sappho, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Whitman, Melville, Tchaikovsky, Emma Goldman and many, many other valuable members of the human family. These historic models relate directly to the curious notion that sexual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All You Need Is Love | 3/15/1977 | See Source »

BENTON'S OTHER WAY of accentuating this juxtaposition of eras is through the unlikely combo itself: the old timer and the space cadet. This device is trickier, though; Altman and a lot of American film directors have tried the modern gangster idea and seen it work, while at first glance...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Dyspepsia and Dark Alleys | 3/5/1977 | See Source »

After all the years of high drama, the secret missions overseas, the exhausting negotiations when everything depended upon him, it seems hard to believe that Henry Kissinger will no longer be the U.S. Secretary of State. There will never be another like him-a prospect that pleases his enemies as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: His Legacy: Realism and Allure | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

Hough himself deftly ruminates on eras and how they end. Not large, dramatic chunks of history that close with a bang, noticeable to the world, but odd personal eras, those less obtrusive small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Before the Fall | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Weinstein said he was not alarmed by the Newsweek cover story, "Why Johnny Can't Write," that caused such a furor in educational circles last winter. He disagreed with Newsweek's thesis that students' writing troubles are worse now than ever before, and pointed to a series of articles from...

Author: By John Sedgwick, | Title: Helping Johnny Write | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

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