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EVEN allowing for the partisan scandalmongering in which all candidates traffic, the nation's political air seems especially contaminated this year -thick with the taint of special favors, dirty money, interparty espionage, intimations of official power in the service of corporate friends. Nothing has yet been proved exactly, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Is Nobody Indignant Any More? | 10/16/1972 | See Source »

Without at least a mail-order course in triadic dialectics, it is best to forgo analysis of Tournier's synthesis. Enough said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mythomania | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

Vulgar Parlance. The gag illustrates Allen's reliance on a comic device that is as old as Aristophanes-the principle of inversion or, in more vulgar parlance, the old switcheroo. Woody's divorce joke, in fact, is merely an updated version of a line used by Oscar Wilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Visible Violators. The aggressive part was quickly established-even though his personal style is amiable. When the EPA was just a week old, Ruckelshaus startled the mayors of Atlanta, Detroit and Cleveland by giving them 180 days to come up with a plan to correct water-quality violations-or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Ruckelshaus' First Year | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

Principal source of Birmingham's smog is a clutch of 23 heavy-industry companies (including U.S. Steel and Republic Steel), whose smokestacks spew out tons of sooty particles each day. Last April, when a similar temperature inversion occurred, most of the companies ignored requests from local health authorities and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Bad Air Over Birmingham | 11/29/1971 | See Source »

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