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He may deserve his widespread reputation in Japan as an accomplished marine biologist, but as a budding ornithologist Emperor Hirohito may just have to feather his reputation some other way. During a recent visit to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, the Emperor dropped in on a special, eight-month-old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 5, 1982 | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

Perhaps Ramsay is most formidable as a conservative autocrat of the breakfast table who tells his young son that the government is ruining the country. The boy replies that his teacher says the government should help people in Depression times. Fuming in anger, the father deliberately makes the boy late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Decline of the Wasp | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

"Abandoned" seems a little strong to describe what we have done to excellence. But of course a note of elegy always haunts discussions of excellence and quality. It is human nature to imagine that our present reality is squalid, diminished, an ignominious comedown from better days when household appliances lasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

She collided with a city that for 50 years had based its culture on spending more and more of the taxpayers' money. Her husband came to slow the trend. Nancy Reagan was judged harshly by some lingering partisans of the counterculture: the devoted wife was somehow suspect, the pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: From Brickbats to Bouquets | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

That wives may amend their lives properly. Molloy offers a quiz for executive wives, including such vital points as: "6 I shop for my clothing at the same stores as the wives of my husband's co-workers,"..."11 I immediately spot someone with poor table manners,"..."12 Although most...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen, | Title: Success Made Sleazy | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

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