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...like to see what each of you has to say on this, is uh, why should we do it for Mexico and why not others?" (Kennedy at times seems uneasy with statistical charts and figures, jumbling them and obfuscating his points. He also has a disconcerting habit of leaving sentences unfinished, though this has the advantage of allowing his listeners to finish them, in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

Heading straight for the cockpit is a habit that Jones acquired during his 37 years in the Air Force. But he is no mere hot pilot. Cool, meticulous, low-key and dogged, Jones typifies the new breed of military managers. Explains a senior Pentagon aide: "The era is over of flamboyant combat heroes rising to the top of the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: He Is Exasperated with People About Half the Time | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

When the church granted her permission to lay aside her Loreto habit and take up the blue-edged, coarse cotton white sari that became the uniform of the Missionaries of Charity, young women from St. Mary's soon joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nobel Prizes: I Accept in the Name of the Poor | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...other writers lapse into a bland, shopping list prose style which may be suitable for album liner notes but waxes tedious after 30 lines. Even Nat Hentoff, a normally fine writer, gets bogged down by his habit of quoting extensively from the artists themselves. A few anecdotes are enough to establish the parallel between Lester Young's personal eccentricities and the relaxed intensity of his playing--the rest add only bulk...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Jazzing Up an Old Age | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson Arts Weekly was not only disappointing in its content, it was also offensive. For lack of news, the Crimson resorted to advertisement through sex to make articles appealing. The cover displays Hugh Hefner surrounded by several Playboy bunnies; the titles of the top stories run: "The Habit of Balling," "James Bond Reduced to a Prissy Liberalism," and "Hot Damn: Texas Has a Whorehouse." The cover and titles are catchy for their aggressive male sexual connotation. The Crimson seems to believe that it can disregard its female readership with impunity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sex Appeal | 10/23/1979 | See Source »

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