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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech?" "He thought a long time," Carter recalled, "and he said, 'Well, I listened to your earlier speeches.' And I said, 'No, I want to know if you would have listened last Thursday night.' He said, 'Mr. President, I hate to answer you, but I promise you I'll listen to you on Sunday night.' " If the people did listen, would it mean that Carter can begin pulling the nation ?and his own presidency?out of its "downhill spin"? Much of the discussion at Camp David focused on the need for changes in Carter's staff, and perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter at the Crossroads | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...look for technique, you'll find a lot of talent in Newsfront. Vincent Monton's photography is graceful and effective. Switches from color to black-and-white seem random, but Monton does well with both...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Between the Idea and the Reality | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...hear kids today listen to music and get lost in it," von Schmidt complains, 'and escape into it." They'll say that folk's boring or its too soft or too slow, and I'll say, 'Well don't you think it's more sensitive?' But when people need to figure out what's going on in the world and who they are, when the energy crisis comes on so bad that middle class people are out in the backyard chopping up wood, I think you may see a resurgence in this type of music. It's sensitive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Once and Future Folk Scene | 7/17/1979 | See Source »

...could not punch home winners when he needed them. Said Tanner: "He's tremendous but not invincible." When it was all over, the usually undemonstrative Borg dropped to his knees, raised his arms in the air and permitted himself a wide grin. Said he: "I'll be back for five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon: Game, Set, Out! | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...pale compared with what it was in the heyday of William RandolphHearst. One episode: Drumming the U.S. to war against Spain, Hearst sent " Artist Frederic Remington to Cuba. When Remington cabled that all was quiet, with no war in sight, Hearst fired back: "You supply the pictures, I'll supply the war." Arrogance of such magnitude is unheard of today. The sensationalist Joseph Pulitzer declared that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but the fact is that journalism today takes that maxim far more seriously than did the papers of Pulitzer's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Press, the Courts and the Country | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

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