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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Welfare State. Goldsmith argues with messianic fervor that Britain, "the last bastion of genuine entrepreneurial capitalism," has strayed too far down the road toward welfare-state egalitarianism and has forgotten excellence, hard work and the need for a talented elite to run things if the economy is not to go smash. Should Britain's economy crash, Goldsmith feels, democracy would expire in the wreckage. Part of the trouble, he believes, is a "cancer in the British press eating away at its guts." This cancer causes the more strident popular journals to attack pillars of the British system from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Jimmy's Cross-Channel Fiefdom | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...regiment and offers to lead them into the fray, an offer promptly refused by President Wilson. Still, all four sons serve courageously, with the youngest, Quentin, flying for the air corps, and the blustery old roughrider shouts a rousing "bully" at the news of every medal they receive. The fervor of war incites stirring memories of the heroic charge up San Juan Hill. Undoubtedly the most moving scene of the play, T.R.'s moment of triumph is made more potent and more politically meaningful in the play, juxtaposed as it is against the crushing news of Quentin's death...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: Smooth Sail for a Rough Rider | 3/19/1977 | See Source »

Stahr is not simply another Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald was far older when he wrote The Last Tycoon, and the romantic fervor which defined Gatsby has been replaced in Stahr by a "mixture of common sense, wise sensibility, theatrical ingenuity, and a certain half-naive conception of the common weal." A paternalistic employer of the old school, Stahr, like his literary forerunner, is condemned to repeat the past in an age which values only the present moment. In contrast to Gatsby, however, his nemesis is not the carelessness of the very rich but the more modern venality of American capitalism...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Movie-Making | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...even one of Stevens' 85 plants, most of them in the Southeast. The intensity of the company's resistance, however, has only confirmed unionists in their view that Stevens is the key to organizing all the South. Now they are launching a new campaign, touched with the fervor of the civil rights crusades of the 1960s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: A Touch of Civil Rights Fervor | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Winners and Losers is not perfect, of course. At times the detail grows tedious and redundant, at times Emerson's fervor obscures the gray areas in between those who have lost and those who have won by the war. She makes no effort to analyze the causes of the war in Vietnam; that is not her mission. Her goal is that of a reporter, to describe what has happened, and she makes little attempt to move beyond that limited role. In some ways that omission is unfortunate: the reader is left curious about the meaning of Emerson's experience about...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: A Very Personal View | 3/3/1977 | See Source »

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