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...small pieces." In The American Clock, premiering at the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival, Arthur Miller is picking up the pieces of a national trauma. The shock waves of the '29 crash and the ensuing Great Depression stunned families, businesses and an entire society, engulfing them in anguish, fear, hopeless unemployment and abject despair. The tremors are still felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Broke and Blue | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...making the wrong ones for decades to come. We will fight wars to defend a national interest determined in a few corporate boardrooms. We will continue to polarize our society economically so that a handful maintain their standard of consumption while many sink into an abyss of hopeless misery. Worst of all, as we struggle to save the least desirable qualities of the American way of life, we will lose hold of its most valuable freedoms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Right Sacrifices | 6/5/1980 | See Source »

Closer to the mountain, the eruption blasted twelve miles of the once pristine north fork of the Toutle River into a lifeless moonscape. Herds of black-tailed deer, bobcats and cougars used to swarm through the valley's hemlock and Douglas fir; elk still wandered in hopeless confusion through the ashen desolation. The river and its source, Spirit Lake, once teemed with steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. All were destroyed by the eruption. TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman was one of the first journalists to see the area by helicopter after the blast. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God I Want To Live! | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

Anderson appears to many as a white knight on a crusade, but to those of us in the mainstream of political life, he is Don Quixote, leading his befuddled followers down a hopeless, inane road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...penalties had also been imposed in an attempt to discourage U.S. boat crews, many of them hopeless land lubbers, from risking their lives on the high seas. Indeed, when a fierce storm with near hurricane-force winds lashed the straits last week a major disaster threatened the main body of the flotilla. Nine boats sank and nine boats capsized. Coast Guard cutters plucked 14 people from the 8-ft. waves and towed 65 vessels back to Key West. It was considered miraculous that only four people drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The Flotilla Grows | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

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