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...fashionable in recent Administrations. Like most other virtues, loyalty in moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1981 | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

...rebellious after more than a decade of two-four rhythm. The familiar events are all thrown in, but portrayed from new and interesting angles. The drug bust at Redlands, the tragedy at Altamont, the transition from Mick Taylor to Ron Wood, the triumphant American tours and the countless, faceless women--it's all here...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Roots of Stones | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

...company is very much an ensemble, but one with a distinctive profile. Kylian does not like the occasional criticism that his troupe is anonymous. Says he: "I don't like to hear that we are faceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: And Now, the Netherlanders | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...held in suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but there are references to the 1930s, and at one time Mozart can be seen working at a hammerklavier. Ida, the oldest girl, is given charge of her baby sister. When she grows inattentive, faceless creatures steal in and exchange the child for a simulacrum made of ice. Frantic, Ida climbs backward out her window and into the sky, tumbling through worlds of arbors and harbors, moonlight and lamplight, irrevocable loss and paradise regained. In the end the villainous goblins are revealed as babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...Penn. Freddie Lee Thomas, James Reeb and other fallen civil rights workers. Its soul was the soul of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Terrell County. Georgia, one of many Negro churches burned or bombed to the ground. Its mentality was that of sheriff James Clark and other faceless, mindless segregationist law enforcers singlehandedly determined to "keep nigger in his place." And its heart was Selma, Alabama--25,000 proud people marching, hands clasped, and with full throats, chanting old Negro spirituals, on their way to the state capital in a voter registration drive...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Voting Rights, Found and Lost? | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

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