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...criminal in the name of every blind and dead little boy and girl in all of Vietnam and Cambodia. Harvard held Kissinger's chair in the Government Department open for him even as Indochina glowed with burning napalm fire; this University's values had retreated so far into the grey twilight of relativism that the values meant nothing...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/20/1974 | See Source »

DISCUSSING the period of the thirties in American writing, Murray Kempton once remarked that no other age produced so many counterfeit Walt Whitmans. He meant that everyone who wanted his thoughts about society to be believed felt compelled to echo the great grey bard: "I am the man, I suffered, I was there...

Author: By William E. Forbath, | Title: Smiling Sharecroppers | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...twangy recordings of such country classics as You Are My Sunshine, Jingle, Jangle, Jingle and of the theme from the 1952 western High Noon. As a singing cowboy, Ritter also played in 70-odd western films, mostly during the '40s; later he appeared on TV's Zane Grey Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 14, 1974 | 1/14/1974 | See Source »

Untamed Play. Millions of other fans from the Yukon to Newfoundland will slow down their own parties long enough to watch the game on TV. They may be joined by American viewers who stumble on the Grey Cup while switching channels to catch American Thanksgiving weekend games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canada's Super Cup | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

Occasionally the theatrics are improvised: in the 1957 Grey Cup a halfback racing down the sidelines suddenly fell on his face, tripped by an overwrought fan. For the most part, the play is livelier than in the U.S. because the rules are different. The fields are 10 yds. longer and 12 yds. wider, leaving far more space for the running game. Unlimited motion in the backfield makes it harder to defend against the run. The deeper end zone (25 yds. v. 10 yds. in the U.S.) allows attacking teams a chance to run full-throttle pass patterns from inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Canada's Super Cup | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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