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...style was always that of a political juggler, matching small gestures to moderate Catholic opinion with major concessions to Protestant hardliners. He introduced internment last August over the misgivings of the Conservative government in London. Within seven months, that blunder forced Britain to step in and take over Ulster's security. But Faulkner's decision to resign rather than accede to British demands reinforced his hold, for the time being at least, on Unionist party politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Three Voices of Protest | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

Today the most recurring objects in his sculptures are croquet and billiard balls ("the world, and also the idea of Orpheus as an entertainer and juggler"), dolls ("man in his universe"), and ironing boards ("connotations of heat suggest hell"). Weather, rather than paint, creates his mellowed patinas, as well as the myriad uses to which each object has been put. But more than any natural beauty, it is his arrangement into harmonious compositions that give Boghosian's rescued miscellany a sad, precious sense of fatality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Mythmaker | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop., the one and only Robert Coover performed brilliant literary acrobatics in the center ring. Now, with sleights of hand, desperate feints, chills and thrills, he impersonates the fat man and the thin lady, the magician pulling himself from a hat, the juggler, ringmaster, hall of mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Man Circus | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...disappointed when the juggler drops the ball. It is the one that continues to rise that must be watched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One-Man Circus | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

...most of his young Administration, Richard Nixon has seemed the artful juggler, tossing up fragile plates of policy into mischievous air currents. War and inflation threaten to spoil the performance. A Democratic Congress stands ready to harass him. To those who elected him, there are promises to keep; from those who voted against him, there are conflicting demands. He has failed to improve his relations with black Americans, and he has been unable really to placate white Southerners who feel that the pace of integration is too quick. Many intellectuals and journalists anticipate the crash of crockery with glee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE ADMINISTRATION: TENUOUS BALANCE | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

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