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Not long ago, Sheldon S. Wolin, a professor of politics at Princeton University writing in the New York Review of Books, was wrestling with the same problem. He found solace, or at least something of a possible silver lining, in an unlikely source. In the third book of Machiavelli'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: First Principles | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

Calculating entrepreneurial intellectuals took a look at tennis and thought for a while. There were some of the raw materials already intrinsic to the game: the sudden death nature of the tiebreakers introduced by James Van Alen in the 60s; overhead smashes and crosscourt chops, cuts, slices, lobs, which reminded...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Lobsters' Game | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

The recent Supreme Court decisions toughened local prosecution of pornography, and the FBI now has 90 full-time agents monitoring interstate shipments of film. The real trouble, however, is neither cops nor courts but boredom-the intrinsic tedium in the medium since hard-core hit the screen. "A hard-core...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Lust's Labor Lost | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Naturalism is the right style for McCleery: it lets him explore real people in recognizably human situations making it through their crises with little psychic hurt. An optimist himself, McCleery consciously intends to stress the comic and the positive in plays. The vividness intrinsic to naturalism allows him to make...

Author: By Brian A. Powers, | Title: Hoping For The Best | 3/1/1974 | See Source »

The court in its decision limited the use of such "therapy" to instances where medical authorization and the specific written consent of the prisoner had been given. But it left the important questions unanswered, with its neutral, impersonal language. Who gave the order? Who administered the drug? Who took the...

Author: By Carol Korot, | Title: On Solzhenitsyn | 2/26/1974 | See Source »

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