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...done by Kissinger's wife Nancy and his two teen-age children. On the final day of the visit, the entire party flew to the ancient garden city of Suchow, 600 miles south of Peking, where Kissinger was taken to a spot named, significantly, "the Garden of Foolish Politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Guns and Millet | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...never said a foolish thing...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: A Sort of Life | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...that make them exciting if we look beyond the thin veneer of wealth and poise. "Babylon Revisited" is an elegant, sophisticated treatment of an expatriate's loneliness in Paris. His wealth is integral to the plot, not obtrusive. The story is also structured meticulously, interweaving flashbacks to younger, more foolish days and ending in an indefinite way that reinforces the story's mood...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Paradise in Bits and Pieces | 11/12/1974 | See Source »

...laudatory tome on the U.S. jury system; of an apparent heart attack; at home in Chicago. An ardent civil libertarian, Kalven frequently argued First Amendment cases, including Entertainer Lenny Bruce's 1963 obscenity appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court; contemptuous of censorship, he regarded obscenity laws as "foolish and trivial." A projected major work on legal theories underlying freedom of speech was half completed when he was stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 11, 1974 | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Hunt gets into trouble when he comes out of the mine and into the day light. Between the beginning and end of Gold there is a great deal of foolish ness about Sir John's plotting, Roger Moore's carrying on with the wife of his immediate and sinister superior (Bradford Dillman) and the wife's (Susannah York) becoming smitten with Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Iron Pyrite | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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