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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...warning, he came out in favor of a stiff 15% increase in the property tax. When the city council cut his request by half, he exploded in anger, calling the vote a "victory for the rich against the poor." Complained a white businessman: "Here we're trying like hell to get confidence and trust going both ways, and he does a thing like that. People don't know who the real Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATLANTA: A Mayor Learning On the Job | 4/21/1975 | See Source »

...favorite parts has been the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni: the Italian equivalent of Don Juan who, having seduced over 1000 women before the opera starts, goes on to seduce a few more before he's packed off to hell. Diaz says that he tries to portray this character as a glorious rebel rather than as a rank scoundrel, adding. "From a chauvinistic point of view you could say, look at all the women he made happy! Apparently he was an irresistible character--a terrific lover, a wonderful human being, at least for those few minutes or hours...

Author: By Kathy Holub, | Title: State of Siege | 4/17/1975 | See Source »

...ancient Greek and Elizabethan plays to mention Viet Nam. His explanation of why the U.S. seemed somehow unable to quit the war in 1968 is a therapeutic jolt for those who prefer not to recall the recent past. "If we stop, our guilt is palpable," he wrote, "all this hell for nothing. Hence we must incur more guilt, and more, and always more to cleanse ourselves of guilt. Here is a parallel to Macbeth." But in real as in theatrical tragedy, the killing had to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: HOW SHOULD AMERICANS FEEL? | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...activities as lawyer and politician (TIME, March 17). Similarly, the CIA turned over to former Democratic Representative Charles Porter of Oregon 17 items from his file, including a report on his attendance at a 1968 meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Oakland, Calif. Asks Porter: "What the hell does that have to do with the CIA? They're treating me like a security risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BUREAUCRACY: Opening Up Those Secrets | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

Seated, resting his strong arms on the table is a well-dressed, rugged-looking young man. He looks bored as hell. That's Tony...

Author: By Michael G. Messerschmidi, | Title: Messing Around | 4/11/1975 | See Source »

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