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...retreat from the old dogmatism is welcome, any hint of improvisation. "Gray is all theory," wrote Goethe, "but green is the golden tree of life." That, weirdly enough, was one of Le nin's favorite quotations. The striking Polish workers seem a lit tle farther than he from theory and a little closer to the green tree. In one sense they are behaving in a purely Marxian fash ion: proletarians rising up against the oppressors who contra the means of production. They have very far to go. The strikers now seem oddly like 19th century workers in Western Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Workers Get out of Communism | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...branch of the First National Bank of nearby Warsaw, Ind., ambles back to her job across Main Street clutching The Call of the Wild. In her wake, Bank Teller Cindy Leslie carries off Little Women. The Rev. Steve Cain, 30, a Van Gogh beard and casual garb offering no hint that he is pastor of Claypool's United Methodist Church, chooses Marathon Man on the assumption, he says, that this nasty little spy thriller is about running. The Rev. Cain's daughter Rachel, 8, is a small celebrity in Claypool. Year before last, as part of a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indiana: Here Comes the Bookmobile | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

Like the early explorers or like prospectors trekking through the dusty gold fields, each casting director cherishes his discoveries. Selznick also claims Richard Dreyfuss, Candice Bergen and Telly Savalas. "She's discovered the world," says Competitor Jane Feinberg with the most delicate hint of sarcasm. Marion Dougherty, who has been in the business 31 years, gave Warren Beatty his first TV role, in the old Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

...pigment and chromosome, the 1980 Democratic Convention was nearly perfect. Television directors were ecstatic as they ordered their crews to zoom in on the U.S. profile spread across Madison Square Garden, from pink cheeks with a hint of baby fat to wrinkles and wattles, from deepest ebony to lily white, female and male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Delegates from Big Brother | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...ecumenical standpoint, the most provocative aspect of the matter was the National Conference of Bishops' statement that these converts could become Catholics while keeping "some elements" of the Anglican tradition. Just what that might mean has yet to be worked out. To some the phrase seemed to hint at their retaining the use of the 1928 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Vatican sources told TIME, however, that the Book of Common Prayer could "scarcely be used in the Mass." But the concession might refer to such services as morning and evening prayer, which are not part of regular worship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Married Priests | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

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