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Dates: during 1970-1979
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His is in fact a backward-looking revolution, which envisions a return to a mythical historical past in which Horatio Alger individualism was unhampered by monopoly power. Such a vision, reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom, presupposes a peculiarly slanted view of American history--one which Julian loses no...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Behind every great man | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Roger Rosenblatt's short piece "Growing Up On Television" suffers from different problems. Rosenblatt, literary editor of the New Republic, does not commit Coles's stylistic abuses. But he provides so little analysis and arrives so infrequently at conclusions about television's actual role in adult life that the piece...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Jaded philosophies | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

Although the most worthwhile portions of Some Time in the Sun are probably the excerpts from the film scripts themselves, the book will probably end up on many Fitzgerald-in-Hollywood-in-the-30s fans' already crowded shelves. Instead of debunking it, Dardis's book only complicates the California myth...

Author: By Diane Sherlock, | Title: Some Time in the Sun | 12/8/1976 | See Source »

The male chorus in the Leverett production is particularly good, but several members of the female chorus repeatedly broke character, looking as if they were thinking of what to do after the show or how many papers they had to write by Christmas.

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Soft Mattress, Sweet Pea | 12/7/1976 | See Source »

"You're looking at a guy who used to buy transistor radios from kids on the train just so I could hear the score," blurted out Ronald L. of New York City as 16 men and one woman listened solemnly. "I used to bet on everything, even the turnstiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: KICKING THE HABIT | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

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