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...absolute dominion of chance and accident, a way (he reverses Faulkner's phrase) of surviving where most people only know how to endure. Tarden blinds an armed attacker by luring him into a room used for treating photographic plates with powerful quartz lights. That man, he says, was a fool for taking so few precautions. Tarden, on the other hand, hooks his feet around the legs of chairs so they can't be pulled out from under him, looks back when he enters buildings and equips all his apartments with explosives and listening devices...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A New Jerzy | 9/19/1975 | See Source »

...obligation to pass on all the associate professors after they have been here three and a half years. Most are denied tenure. In those cases, Mansfield said, he calls in the junior faculty member and delivers the verdict "with some necessary sugar coating, which doesn't really fool the candidate but makes the experience easy...

Author: By Mark J. Penn, | Title: Tenure: Notes on Becoming a Baron(ess) | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

...have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets a Raymond Chandler novel in present-day California. Elliot Gould is Phillip Marlowe, and he gives the best performance of his career. Watch him fool...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: THE SCREEN | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Senator Edward Kennedy, who is still resolutely declaring that he will not seek the Democratic nomination, will continue to travel the country as before. Kennedy has put the problem this way: "If someone in my position doesn't realize the danger, he'd be a fool. But anybody who lets that danger paralyze him is useless." On the day that Ford was in Sacramento, Kennedy was in Seattle to dedicate a cancer center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIOLENCE: THE GIRL WHO ALMOST KILLED FORD | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Former Senator J. William Fulbright, now a lawyer about town, has watched the setting for 32 years. He likened the summer of '75 to the days of Ike. "When I came here as a young man," he said, "I used to complain about the inaction. What a fool I was. There was great wisdom in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: When the Anemometers Stall | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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