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...family life. "There's been a lot of sin committed in the name of the family," he says. "Sins on the children, sins of husband and wife to each other. I feel about the family as I do about the middle class, that it's somehow fiercer in there than has been assumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...during the past two weeks have all but obscured a grim new reality in the actual warfare in Viet Nam. The fighting so far in 1968, as General William Westmoreland observed last week, has been "the most intense of the entire war." Moreover, most of the initiative in the fiercer fighting since New Year's Day belongs to the Communists, despite the inevitably heavy losses such aggression means in the face of the allies' overwhelming superiority of firepower. Some 2,800 Communist troops were killed during the first week of January, the highest weekly toll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Communist Step-Up | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...reported cost to his party of $11 million-excluding his own unreported costs. In 1964, total reported campaign costs were almost $50 million-more than double the price of 1952. On primaries alone, Loser Nelson Rockefeller personally shelled out nearly $5,000,000. The 1968 money competition may be fiercer. In the New Hampshire primary, presidential hopefuls may drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: NOW IS THE FOR ALL GOOD MEN . . . | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

What the current exhibit of 73 of his works at Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art has demonstrated is that Conner remains as fine an artist as the pop laureates, and is far fiercer. In their own way, his fragile panels and boxes, smeared with black wax and ornamented with tarnished jewelry, Victorian wallpaper, girlie postcards and other detritus, shock and edify much as does a scabrous Matthias Grunewald crucifixion, or the death's-head kept as a memento mori by medieval princes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Savonarola in Nylon Skeins | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

House members are lining up a far fiercer gantlet for the bill than the Senate presented. Many House members, who are in a cost-cutting mood, want to reorganize OEO into oblivion; there is also a widespread conviction that poverty funds should be pared. And, unlike their Senate colleagues, the House critics complement rather than offset one another. When the authorization bill runs its House test, the President is more likely to be fighting for enough money than fighting off too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Poverty Bill's Progress | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

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