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Feminists, if they come down with it, have it worse than anyone else. This is because limerence depends on game playing, coyness, trial balloons and all sorts of other manipulations that the women's movement can't abide. And besides that, Tennov says, limerence tends to re-create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Let's Fall in Limerence | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

Pegler reigned as the nation's most controversial pundit for three decades. As a name caller he had no equal. To be "Peglerized" became almost an honor. To Pegler, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was "little padrone of the Bolsheviki," Walter Winchell a "gents-room journalist," and Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Master of the Epithet | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

Plush Exile. Then, last month, Cultural Affairs Minister Andre Malraux appointed Marcel Landowski, a composer of conservative persuasion and little renown, as the ministry's director of music. Boulez hit the ceiling, canceled all future government-connected engagements in France and fired off a scathing letter, which was published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: Goodbye to All That | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

The Home of the Brave, and the Land of the Free, of the New Deal, of the Fair Deal, of the New Frontier, and of the Great Society can have no respect for the inscrutable, childish, feebleminded, sloganmongering land of the Great Leap Forward and of the Hundred Flowers, with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPEN LETTER TO MR. MAO | 3/23/1965 | See Source »

This is the situation examined in this picture. It is not a pleasant situation and it is not a pleasant picture. But as far as it goes the film is bone-honest, and at moments it is mortally moving. Adapted by Abby Mann from his 1957 television play, A Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love Is Not Enough | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

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