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The author totes these children about from one scene in his novels to the next, packing them off to infernal rites of passage. The tensions between youth and adulthood fascinate him and unify his often wandering plots. The most poignant moment of his now classic Lord Of The Flies occurs...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: Children of Darkness | 2/28/1980 | See Source »

Aron does not fret over the specifics of the East-West strategic arms controversy. What he most fears is a loss of nerve among the Western democracies, resulting from a tenacious feeling of inferiority to the Soviet system. Many American analysts would disagree, believing that the U.S. has become complacent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: Democracy, Yes | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

Cimino, 37, broke into movies as a writer for Clint Eastwood. After directing the promising Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, he spent four years on various scripts before joining forces with De Niro on The Deer Hunter. Here Cimino creates a portrait of the war that beggars logic and is boundless in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Hell Without a Map | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

In Georgia's affluent De Kalb County just outside Atlanta, 12,000 irate homeowners have signed a petition to dump the county's chief executive, Walter Russell, nephew of the late Democratic Senator Richard Russell, whom they blame for putting in a computerized system that reassessed property annually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Revolt of the Homeowners | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

When a heavy sea fog rests on its frightful desolation, a place better fitted to represent the infernal regions could scarcely be found ... Death would be preferable to banishment to such a country.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: The Struggle for Namibia | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

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