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...best friends in high school started to lose his hair during our sophomore year. My other friends and I, eager to ridicule any personal flaw we could find in our companions, embarked on a three-year crusade to torment our balding...

Author: By Charles E. Cohen, | Title: A Touch of Chrome | 12/12/1985 | See Source »

Another constitutional flaw, they believe, may be at work in remorseless people who lack conscience. If conscience is the product of conditioning, they write, "persons deficient in conscience may turn out to be persons who for various reasons resist classic conditioning--they do not internalize rules as easily as do others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Are Criminals Born, Not Made? | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...wars of the 1950s and 1960s. Many more blacks have stood side by side with Jews against bigotry than have stood against them. Yet lately some black ministers and politicians have sounded ambivalent about Farrakhan, praising the self-help program as valuable and treating the bigotry as a minor flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned that anti-Semitic feelings run deep in black communities, where Jewish shopkeepers and landlords were the only whites within reach and thus came to represent white oppression generally. Being anti-Semitic often seemed a way for blacks to join forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Demagogue in the Crowd | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

Multiflex defenders might point out that passes are rarely completed to wide receivers because of the limited abilities of the passers and receivers, not because of a flaw in the offensive system...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: In Search of the Last Touchdown Pass | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

...fact, deprived children are cruelly aware of those who have more; the streets and screens provide all the evidence they need. It is only the privileged young who can be free, however briefly, from envy. Given this flaw, Once Upon a Time, an account of the heiress's first 17 years, might have been a mere riches-to-rags saga of Society's Child, who proved that success was largely a matter of jeans. Instead the author speaks in melancholy outbursts about an evaporated world of titled men and breathtaking women, of movie stars and mansions and what seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Society's Child Once Upon a Time | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

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