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...little more than a month after Jimmy's defeat, do townspeople feel the pride of four years ago, the fervent expectancy encouraged in his always fragile Irish tenor at his swearing-in: "That when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our nation-that we had remembered the words of [the prophet] Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy and justice ... that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own government once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Georgia: Plains Revisited | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...fervent belief," says Engelberger, "that any increase in productivity is always good. The problem is to decide what to do with the blessings. Do we want to have a shorter work week? That's one of the possibilities. Would we like clean air and water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Robot Revolution | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Sally's nephew Ken (Christopher Reeve), who now owns the Talley place, is perched on crutches, having lost both legs in Viet Nam. Through the marvel of commercial casting, cinema's Superman has become a homosexual cripple. Reeve gives his role the old college try-fervent amateurism. Ken's lover is Jed (Jeff Daniels), a horticulture nut. Ken's sister June (Joyce Reehling) has sedated her radicalism with bread baking, and her 13-year-old daughter (Amy Wright) is stoned on sexual voyeurism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Happy Hangover | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

Manley had explained to his fervent followers that Jamaican problems resulted from a devastating triple play: Western imperialism and its effect on the Jamaican capital, a skyrocketing oil import bill and blundering representatives in the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The IMF received particular wrath from Manley, who blamed the Fund for forcing a Jamaican currency devaluation which he claimed had disabled the Jamaican economy. Symbols of last week's election, graffiti scrawled on the walls of Kingston and throughout the country, denounced the IMF for trying to prompt the downfall...

Author: By David Lawrence, | Title: Involuntary Crimes | 11/6/1980 | See Source »

...candidates have plenty over which to fight. Dornan, an archconservative, is one of Congress's most fervent opponents of abortion, the ERA and SALT II. Says Dornan, a former Air Force fighter pilot: "The way to keep the peace is to prepare for war." Peck, on the other hand, is a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative and social liberal. He favors the ERA, more defense spending and tax incentives for building new homes, a popular issue in his district, with its 30% annual inflation in house prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The House: Personalities on Stage | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

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