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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hopelessness & Helplessness. Statistics at best can only delineate the bare perimeters of poverty. The sensations of being poor are scarcely comprehensible to the 170 million Americans who are not poor: the hollow-bellied, hand-to-mouth feeling of having no money for tomorrow; the smell of wood smoke that hangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NATION WITHIN A NATION | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

Groucho as Oedipus. Roth sees Portnoy's life as "a masochistic extravaganza," and no one is more aware of this than Portnoy himself. In one of his many hysterical bursts of insight, he cries that he is "torn by desires that are repugnant to my conscience, and a conscience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Perils of Portnoy | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

In spite of Michener's long-windedness, no single book since V. S. Pritchett's The Spanish Temper and Gerald Brenan's The Face of Spain has succeeded so well in embracing the country's history and culture, its natural and architectural milieu, and the quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Infatuated Traveler | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

The long neglected pursuit of political theory may find a new and vibrant meaning in today's intellectual world.

Author: By James C. Kitch, | Title: When Will Intellectuals Become Activists? | 5/14/1968 | See Source »

FOR MUCH of the novel it is impossible to remember who is married to whom. In adultery the tenuous meaning we create by marriage is destroyed, and one human is the same as any other. Eros is no respector of persons. Sexuality is a force as indifferent as electricity to...

Author: By Jay Cantor, | Title: Couples | 5/8/1968 | See Source »

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