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...Though U.S. goods are sometimes superior, Carter's move would hardly cripple the huge Soviet economy, and Moscow can always turn to other countries that are eager to do business. Said one top U.S. official in Washington: "It's a Greek tragedy. We are challenging the Russian manhood. Do we really think that the Russians are going to free dissidents over a computer that they could buy from the French...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Squeeze on the Soviets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter, Southerner, President, last week stalked the ridges and swells of Civil War tragedy, fascinated, brooding. And in his mind, he retreated with the flower of Southern manhood across that wide field of death, back to the South, defeat and a century of humiliation that he feels he was somehow sent to right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: When Duty Called, They Came | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...lines of Black Consciousness makes the black man see himself as a being, entire in himself, and not as an extension of a broom or additional leverage to some machine. At the end of it all, he cannot tolerate attempts by anybody to dwarf the significance of his manhood. Once this happens, we know that the real man in the black person is beginning to shine through...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Biko: A Man for His People | 5/12/1978 | See Source »

...Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl for the favors of the girls. Postpubescent lads, like the winning Aggie football team, matriculate to manhood here under expert tutelage. The prevailing tuition fee is $3. "That's back in the days of Roosevelt nooky, not Carter coffee," says one character who clearly intends to hold the line on inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Delicate Bawdry | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

Admittedly, Coming Home is a rather heavy-handed attempt to redefine such concepts as manhood, patriotism, and love. Activist and associate producer Bruce Gilbert, who conceived the idea for the movie along with Fonda, claims the original black and white differences between the hawkish marine and the anti-war vet were toned down. The stereotypes, however, are still very heavily drawn: the ultra-macho Dern, whose buddies' idea of a perfect party for him is "a side of beef and a case of Jack Daniels," is totally insensitive in bed, gung-ho about the war, and outraged when his wife...

Author: By Bob Grady, | Title: 'Nam Goes to the Movies | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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