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IT KEPT rolling, on and on, like a juggernaut out of control. Traumas and ecstasies and illusion and disillusion, friends and lost friends, and then I heard someone call it "an emotional roller-coaster." While the most certain and directed subjects approached the maze with unswerving confidence and determination, others...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

Wriston's argument overlooks that, rightly or wrongly, many Americans believe that the free market no longer is really free, that in fact it is manipulated not only by Government but also by large private corporations. Also, he ignores that in the battle against inflation, people seem quite willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Of Freedom and Inflation | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

The light in Arikha's paintings is dry and chalky. It conveys a sense of frugality, but with no question of expressionist pathos. His motifs are not actors in a drama of pathetic fallacy, but resistant fragments of the world, the nonself. But what is so gripping about his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arikha's Elliptical Intensity | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

The Jamaican nationalists, however, believe the Rastas are lazy, drugged-out, and beguiled by illusions verging on mass hysteria. In fact, one Jamaican psychologist addressed an international psychology conference about the problem of the culture they find so bizarre. The Rastas are a national disgrace in the eyes of middle...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Bob Marley: The Rasta Wizard Puts on Ivy | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

Lexington, Mass., is nearly country, nearly rich and near enough to Boston to attract a more or less upwardly mobile mix of residents: native Yankees, middle-management families from companies such as Raytheon and Polaroid, intellectuals from M.I.T. and Harvard. "You have the impression that everyone in Lexington has a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Divorced Kids | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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