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Dates: during 1970-1979
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People who know Israel will fail to understand how your Political Freedom Index could give it a lower rating than any country in the West. In spite of all threats to its security and very existence, Israel has for 30 years succeeded in maintaining its way of life as one of the freer societies in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1978 | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

...fail to mention the increasing demands placed upon Government over the past 20 years, services required by the Congress, Presidents and the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...Roots discovered, the black American past has a deep texture and drama that could be profitably explored. Another answer is to get many more blacks involved in conceiving, writing and producing programs about blacks. Until that happens, the networks will continue to turn out shows about blacks that inevitably fail to reflect the di versity of black American lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Blacks on TV: A Disturbing Image | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

These guys not only fail to capture the frisky spirit of the Beatles; they almost succeed in making one nostalgic for the Monkees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Help! | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...sleep again. But parental tolerance of the sleep-gorge-sleep regimen wanes quickly, and then, at least in my family, I am expected to fill the 'rents in on the details of life at school: intellectual pursuits stimulating lectures and an exhilerating, whirlwind, cosmopolitan social life. Unfortunately, words fail me here, because much of my life is spent hunched over a typewriter contracting curvature of the spine and shortchanging the glorious intellectual pursuits my family values...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Springtime in Suburbia | 3/23/1978 | See Source »

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