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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford would seem to be an improbable target of conservative wrath. In his battle with Ronald Reagan, he has moved to the right on domestic and foreign issues. He has toned down the activist, imperial presidency of Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. He has battled Big Government and followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: THE PLIGHT OF THE G.O.P. | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

That solemn judgment echoes through the works of several modern historical theorists, who point like hour hands to the parallel decline of the modern West. Oswald Spengler believed that the historical cycle-both Roman and industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Score: Rome 1,500, U.S. 200 | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

These tocsins resound in French Journalist Amaury de Riencourt's recent The American Empire, which envisions an Americanization of the world comparable to what Rome achieved when the Mediterranean bordered the known universe. Leaders of government and multinational business are the coming Caesars. U.S. foreign policy, however well intentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: The Score: Rome 1,500, U.S. 200 | 8/23/1976 | See Source »

Died. Gregor Piatigorsky, 73, Russian-born cello virtuoso; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. First cellist of Moscow's Imperial Theater at 14, Piatigorsky moved to the U.S. and made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 1929. After 1962 he taught at the University of Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 16, 1976 | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

THERE CAME ABOUT in the early 1960s a "new wave" in science fiction, much as there had 25 years before when science fiction broke away from Buck Rogers--Flash Gordon space opera. On the crest of the wave--which demanded that science fiction be less technically oriented and more an...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Dune and Out | 8/6/1976 | See Source »

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