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This triumph of apolitical bourgeois democracy has been a source of dismay to some. They pine for the heroic age when great ideologies clashed and the life of nations turned on a vote in Congress. On the contrary. I couldn't be happier that the political century is over, and that all that's left is to shuffle cards on the cruise ship. The great disease of the 20th century was the politicization of life. The totalitarians, left and right, showed the way, politicizing everything: economics, education, art, religion, family life. Not even genetics could escape politics. One remembers with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: In Praise of Low Voter Turnout | 5/21/1990 | See Source »

...Bryn Mawr, freshman Christine Rivera found an anonymous note slipped under her door. "Hey Spic," it said, "if you and your kind can't handle the work here, don't blame it on the racial thing . . . why don't you just get out. We'd all be a lot happier." Members of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Kansas found a letter taped to the door. "Jew-Boy get out," it said. "I'm going to burn your Torah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigots in The Ivory Tower | 5/7/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard team did have its happier moments...

Author: By Jacqueline Blocker, | Title: Batswomen Can't Avoid A Strong Assumption | 4/19/1990 | See Source »

...called to the telephone in her elegant home Monday night just as the guard at the front door admitted a visitor. On the line was Ronald Reagan. In the foyer was Daniel Ortega Saavedra. Both wanted to congratulate Violeta Chamorro on her stunning upset, though clearly Reagan was the happier of the two. With the charm and diplomacy bred by her patrician upbringing, Chamorro told Reagan that she would have to call him back. Then she turned and embraced the Sandinista chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chamorro: More Than Just a Name? | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...couldn't be happier for the two of them," Piltch said. "It's a nice legacy for them to leave...

Author: By Andy Fine, | Title: Jenny Holleran, Jon Bernheimer Win National Championships | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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