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Lowe has contempt for most of rock's superacts, running from Elton John, Rod Stewart and Grace Slick of Jefferson Starship ("She's like somebody's mom who's had a few too many drinks at a cocktail party") to megagroups like Kansas, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Yes ("Impotent music. They've got about as much to do with rock 'n' roll as Walter Cronkite"). He is impatient with the power-pop designation. "They say I'm the whiz kid of the three-minute single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bringing Power to the People | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...Denver program, one of the nation's most advanced, teachers started from scratch and wrote a textbook with the help of the Colorado office of energy conservation. The course involves 390 students in six Jefferson County schools. Points are made mostly through class activities. A sample: "Catch the Sun," a lab experiment that measures the heating power of solar energy on a thermometer. A key exercise calls for students to record their household energy use?kilowatt-hours of electricity, cubic feet of natural gas?on special grid sheets. In this way they can compare their energy use with the much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Learning the Conservation ABCs | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Merrimack College Mildred Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Bill Campbell took the loss for the Sox, lowering his record to 2-4, Jesse Jefferson, now 3-5, went the distance for Toronto, picking up the win on a seven-hitter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Red Sox Fall, 2-1, In Extra Innings | 5/24/1978 | See Source »

...more autocratic forms of government. Sicilians came to America with a sage or naive disbelief in Jeffersonian democracy. You cannot trust government; you have to get things done by yourself, with violence, naturally. And the Italians have been right not to trust their democratic representatives who, unlike Washington and Jefferson, have been brought up on corruption and self-seeking as a way of life. Italians still lack a tradition of honest government. They will never get it so long as the electorate goes on thinking in terms of traditional tyranny. The Italian people must start believing that there are honest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Freedom We Have Lost | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

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