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The leads could also have been misguided by the composition of the play. Gondoliers was written to have no shining stars (Gilbert created seventeen leads in a fit of pique that members of D'Oyly Carte Opera Co. had just won large pay raises.) At least on stage, lovers tend...

Author: By Chris Healey, | Title: Blinded Venetians | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

One important reason for the plan's perilous passage through Congress was the misguided way the Administration had shaped up the program in the first place. In pledging to produce a National Energy Plan within 90 days of his Inauguration, and then turning the task into a semisecret crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Where the Carter Plan Stands | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

It is understandable, Patterson acknowledges, that the development of an atomized, impersonal, alienating modern industrial society should stimulate the yearning for these historical forms of "community." Yet Patterson points out that in their nostalgia for these various types of group life, people today mistakenly ignore how unjust and internally coercive...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: The Noble Drive Toward Individualism | 11/15/1977 | See Source »

Burns, a conservative Republican, obviously wants to see higher interest rates, and a closer growth of money supply, than the White House would like, and his stand does nothing to increase the chances that Carter will reappoint him when his term as board chairman expires Jan. 31. Washington speculation on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Burns-Carter Not-Quite Fight | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Sayles describes with devastating satire the endless meetings it takes Third Way to arrive at the required "positions", both Huey Newton's Panthers and Mao's China require the two-hour discussions. He reminds us just how silly most of those innocent revolutionaries could sound. But at the same time...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Them Ol' Walking Blues | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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