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The American pragmatist hated war but nonetheless nourished a great admiration for the military virtues: hardihood, collective fervor, discipline. If these could be diverted from the battlefield, he reasoned, the nation could harness the spirit and energy usually evoked only by local conflict or foreign adventure and be the richer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Moral Equivalents and Other Bugle Calls | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

And throw them he will, if often from afar. "There will be phone calls from wherever he is," says Backe. The new chief executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADCASTING: Small Change at CBS | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

The problem is a peculiarly difficult one that the U.S. political system and the American temperament are not well tuned to solve. Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: SUPERBRAIN'S SUPERPROBLEM | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Luckily for impoverished Grambling, Governor Huey P. ("Kingfish") Long approved the school's efforts in 1928 to become state supported, and the first funds arrived two years later. But not until 1944 was the first B.A. degree awarded, marking Grambling's ascent from a teacher and trade school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prez' Talks Up a Breeze | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Newton's forays into S and M have been matched by some of Photographer Guy Bourdin's recent editorial layouts in French Vogue. His pictures have shown a woman being assaulted in a bathtub, a young girl shooting a man, and a man in a dinner jacket caressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Really Socking It to Women | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

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