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Or, Love's Labors Lost, a Washington comedy of manners

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Wooing of Senator Zorinsky | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Yet critics and children never seem to get enough of Kipling. Psychologists are forever picking at the locks of his complex personality, while kids pass effortlessly through to enter the artist's realm of enchantment and adventure. British Novelist and Critic Angus Wilson is the latest in a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Demon and the Muse | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

The fans may feel comfortable together at their conventions, but their odd interests often separate them into small groups. One of the more unusual of these groups is made up of aficionados of Georgette Heyer, an author of 19th century novels of manners. This group held a formal dance at...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Close Encounters In Beantown | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

Though diplomats may shudder, Carter is pretty talented at getting out of his remarks. Sometimes this amounts to repudiating a position, but Carter seems more bent on showing that at least he hadn't meant to deceive anyone. His soft-voiced answers at press conferences (with which he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: The Press Has Lost Its Watergate Edge | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

In fact the relationship between the sexes, so buffeted by the feminist movement, seems once again to be taking on some subtlety and civility. Men are sending women flowers in greater numbers, the florists say, than at any time in the past decade and are regaining some of the manners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America's New Sentimental Journey | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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