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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break came shortly thereafter. Even from within the car the world pressed in. There was nothing around me. No towns, no houses, no power lines--nothing blocked out the desert and sky but the edge of the road, the broken glass in the run-offs. It wasn't the American Dream, but it was an acceptable substitute: the random and the strange. Driving down 70 could not fit anymore into my easy categories--the images flowing past my windshield demanded my attention. The television mode with its comforting torpor collapsed in the face of scenes no screen could capture...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: The Land Presses In | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...this time the network control couldn't reestablish itself. It may not have been the American Dream, but what I had seen was definitely the genuine article. When I left the car in the desert, the moving picture screen lost its hold over me. Even the sight of Reno couldn't stifle my lately restored ability to see what passes for the real world...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: The Land Presses In | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...difficult it will be for anyone, Democrat or Republican, to campaign against Ted Kennedy! It just wouldn't be sporting to mention honor, courage, truth, fidelity, economy-mindedness, coverup, character, cheating, special privileges, confusion, irrationality or even such ordinary phrases as "crossing that bridge when we come to it" or "troubled waters." The list seems endless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 26, 1979 | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...confirmed the scheme, adding that the trials would only be halted and the hostages let go if the U.S. returned the Shah. Warned a senior official of West Germany's foreign ministry when told of the threat: "With the turmoil and fanaticism in Iran, one has to be prepared even for the outrage of the hostages' execution, even though that would be international murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...them. Eight Iranians, carrying rifles, telescopic sights and ammunition, were arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Airport as they prepared to board a flight to New York. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, normally one of the mildest and most self-controlled of men, said he sympathized with the demonstrators, even the violent ones. "I'd feel like taking a punch at one [an Iranian] myself, if I could get to him," said Byrd. Added Carter: "Every American feels anger and outrage at what is happening." In an effort to cool tempers at home. Carter had previously asked the Immigration and Naturalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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