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...words, but a journey to promote the President's energy program. At every stop, while the calliope tooted God Bless America, Carter preached a new energy ethic, in simplistic terms. Saving energy, he insisted over and over, is "exciting" and "enjoyable," not "inconvenient" or "painful." In folksy, fervent lectures, he urged people to insulate their houses, drive less, observe the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, join car pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cruisin' Down the River | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

...really be that good sex depends on some degree of hostility? Even the master's most fervent disciples were not quite able to accept that unpalatable idea; nor would a good many psychiatrists and psychologists-let alone ordinary people with healthy and gentle sex lives-today. But lately some researchers have been edging in Freud's direction. Indeed, the purported links between sex and aggression -from love bites to rape-are increasing fare in the social sciences. Psychologist and Sex Researcher C.A. Tripp argues that for both men and women some conflict is important to sex; without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Bedroom Battle | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...peculiar that in the name of diversity and intellectual freedom the teaching fellows have objected to the idealism of students. It is my fervent hope that these teachers of American political theory will not silence the politics of morality in the student body. Lena Zezulin '76 Resident tutor, Mather House

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For The Boycott | 5/15/1979 | See Source »

...former Marine grunt, member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now a political activist, I was pleased with both Coming Home and The Deer Hunter [April 23]. There are many subtle lessons in our Asian experience, and it is my fervent hope that the generation now coming of age will be exposed to all of the views concerning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 14, 1979 | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...smile, Owen calls at one house and is greeted by Arthur Bannister, 70, a retired laborer. "Three cheers!" cries Bannister, a lifelong Labor Party man. "You're in. I back Labor and I'll never budge." Encouraged, Owen crosses the street and this time runs into a fervent working-class Tory. Robert Mason, 78, a retired stained-glass cutter, is ill with bronchitis, and Owen goes to his bedside. "You'd do better to go back to doctoring," Mason says. "I don't think Callaghan is any good for the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Clarion Calls | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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