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...transition--possibly preluding the government to follow--has been a gargantuan monster slowly trudging through swamps of paper, still unsteady and trying to find its bearing. And don't let anyone fool you: The transition isn't over; it's still revving up. But it has all dragged on too long for at least one candidate for an administration post. Back in November--and again in December and January--Chris DeMuth's name kept popping up on lists of people to head the EPA. As far as he knows, he's still under consideration. But another factor has come into...

Author: By James G. Herzhberg, | Title: The Endless Transition | 2/13/1981 | See Source »

...author will undoubtedly be rebuked for mining pure fool's gold. A better appraisal would be his own simpler, but profoundly honest one: "It requires the eyes of Africa to see Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black and White | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

Imagine the contempt and derision with which this was received in Langdell, Baker, Littauer, William James and the Computer Center. With all the important skills necessary to manipulate a great university, the godstruck old fool had cited something as intangible as a belief. For it was not only Pusey's belief in God which was pitiful and funny: it was his belief in belief of any kind. Nothing more amuses the men who run this university--and their compatriots who run our society--than men with beliefs and no power...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: For a Firm Foundation | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...crowd: "If they don't get into at least one scrap, they think their weekend is wasted.' Houston, which had a dozen cactus cabarets in 1975, now has more than 300, few of which care to emulate Gilley's Dodge City style. The most successful, Fool's Gold and San Antone Rose, are in affluent residential areas and cater to Gucci gauchos. A Houston-based conglomerate, McFaddin-Kendrick, has launched a national chain of 40 western barns that mix country music with disco. In April a Fort Worth entrepreneur plans to open a three-acre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: C & W Nightclubs: Riding High | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Julia a fool or a saint? Is there a difference? One suspects that William Trevor does not think so, though he is too careful a novelist to ruin his effects with philosophical inquiry. His effects are startling in their range and complexity. Trevor can be sharply funny, as in his description of a television director: "Attired in what appeared to be the garb of a plumber but which closer examination revealed to be a fashionable variation of such workman's clothing: his dungarees were of fawn corduroy, his shirt of red and blue lumberjack checks. He wore boots that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Banality of Deceit OTHER PEOPLE'S WORLDS | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

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