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...custard pie in the face of a few prigs is a cheap price for civilization to pay. Bombs and bomb throwers we've got. But where are the pies? Where are those pie throwers? They'll come in their own time and their own guise. Not even Herman Kahn would dare to predict the details-it is the nature of subversives to surprise. All we can do is wait and prepare to forgive them for the shock treatments they will provide us. Bring on those '70s clowns. A touch of madness may save us from the real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WE ARE NOT AMUSED-AND WHY | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

Fatal Flaw. It promises to be an acid test. At the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Manila last week, Washington's allies showed little enthusiasm for any regional plan. Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman told TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel that his nation might decline to provide any substantial assistance unless its own security were "directly threatened." Some U.S. officials are convinced that Thanat is merely trying to squeeze more aid funds out of Washington; so far Bangkok has "loaned" Phnom-Penh some river-patrol craft, as well as five T-28 propeller-driven bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cambodia: Struggle for Survival | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...that level, The Dirtiest Show in Town is surprisingly amusing. The nudes are graceful, handsome and refreshingly unselfconscious. Acting skill is secondary in group enterprises of this sort, but Jeffrey Herman is kinkily personable and quite funny as a gay Jew, and Madeleine le Roux plays a tall blonde lesbian with the icy authority of a lady storm trooper. Playwright Tom Eyen is perhaps the best guide to the underlying seriousness that animates his play even at its silliest and most scandalous: "We're getting the new sexual freedom suddenly, and we don't know how to cope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Pornocopia | 7/13/1970 | See Source »

...Most members of the Class of '20 are retired and spend some time working on a few civic or Harvard committees. For the most part, however, their lives are one long vacation. Herman Wiener said, "I just fish, hunt, and enjoy life and I plan to continue doing so as long as I live...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: 50th Reunion Class Comes Back-Four Wars Later | 6/9/1970 | See Source »

...bill he was putting up, claiming he wanted to equalize the franchise across the nation, was actually trying to destroy that which gave us the Stokeses, the black sheriffs, while at the same time defeating the Jim Clarks and throwing a scare into men like Herman Talmadge and Mendel Rivers. It is very evident that Nixon does not intend for us to be able to utilize the truth of the courts that we have used in the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Expect More Jacksons | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

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