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THE GREATER PROBLEM with Kugelmass stems from the fact that it simply does not belong with the Shaffer plays. Including it not only makes the evening too long (more than three hours), but also emphasizes the play's own inferiority. Kugelmass appears even more withered and yellow when juxtaposed with...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Two's Company, Three's a Crowd | 3/20/1979 | See Source »

The Bureau of the Budget said in 1957 that the savings from switching to a uniform size (i.e., 8½ by 11) would be "marginal." A 1970 study by the Bureau of Standards assessed what it called "paper sizes annoyance factors." A subsequent study by the Bureau of Standards argued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Paper Chase | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Secrecy, for all its sinister implications and past abuses, is a device of Executive authority. Security on normalizing relations with China was maintained for six months, and one of the reasons was that Carter penned a marginal note on his early instructions to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, saying that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Virtues of Secrecy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

The question remains: Are these "quickies" merely commercial ventures for publishers, or do they represent responsible efforts to record and interpret dramatic world events? Profits, it so happens, are likely to be marginal, given the extra shipping, printing and overtime costs that result from speeding up production. In the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quickie Phenomenon | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Military families are ripe for trouble, says the psychiatrist, because the father is absent much of the time, families see themselves as transients with no real roots, and wives and children are viewed as dependents, marginal to the all-male authoritarian structure of the military. Children move from school to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Army Families | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

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