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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...INFLATION: I have no magic answer for how to reduce the inflation that accompanies full employment. But there are a series of steps each of which could contribute: There should be continued emphasis on programs to make unemployed youths [who can be paid low wages] more qualified for the mainstream job vacancies that appear. Substantial action is needed to deregulate areas of the economy where government stifles competition and holds up prices. Transportation is a key example. Actions that reduce the competition from imports should be avoided. Most important, we need an income policy. It cannot be across-the-board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Schultze on the Record | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

During the 1960s, formalism conferred an almost messianic exclusiveness on taste. If one was "for" one kind of art, one was expected to be "against" others. Besides, a new class of collectors, anxious to commit their money only to sure bets?to what would be Historically Inevitable, to the mainstream of culture?wanted authorities. Not today. The American mainstream has fanned out into a delta, in which the traditional idea of an avant-garde has drowned. Thus, in defiance of the dogma that realist painting was killed by abstract art and photography, realism has come back in as many forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Living Artist | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

When asked about recent conservative opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court, Freund, who is editing an eight-volume history of the Court, said conservative trends have been confined to questions of criminal procedure. On civil rights and freedom of speech, Freund said, "I think the mainstream of the Warren Court will...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: Freund Speaks At Leverett On 3 Justices | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

Mounah A. Khouri and Hamid Algar have compiled a bilingual Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry that transcends such simplistic, patronizing views of the East. The book is a collection of free verse written both in response to and outside the mainstream of modern Western literature, and the poems avoid the formal abstraction of neo-classical Arabic poetry while retaining its rich imagery. In general, they reflect the Western view that literature should reflect an artist's subjective response to the world about him rather than just a superficial description...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Lethargic Dreams | 11/17/1976 | See Source »

...after his unsuccessful trek around the state seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination four years ago, Teasdale hammered away at the Republican in debates and TV ads, painting him as a "corporate man" with ties to big-monied interests and a do-nothing chief executive "removed from the mainstream of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: States: First Hurrahs | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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