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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ways of McLain and his teammates were no less pleasant for Cover Writer Charles Parmiter and Senior Editor George Daniels. Sport figures have a way of stumbling embarrassingly just as a big story is going to press. Denny McLain and the Tigers never gave the TIME Sport staff a moment's worry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 13, 1968 | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...Louis City Art Museum in 1943 as a Salviati (1510-63), then identified in 1951 as by Michele Tosini. But any number of other mid-16th century Italian painters have been mentioned as the artist, including Pontormo, Mirabello Cavalori, Jacopo del Conte and Vasari. At the moment, the museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait of Lorenzino de' Medici, an unhappy Florentine noble who killed Alessandro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Whodunits | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...course. Some of the shock feeling is caused by a kind of historical provincialism: one often tends to feel that one's own time, one's particular moment, is the worst, the most significant ever. Historians are cooler about it. With cosmic detachment, they insist that the only crucial years are those providing great turning points in human affairs. For all its banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT A YEAR! | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...race after McCarthy's victory. Not Lyndon Johnson, who, as practically everyone had" been betting, would run again-but who then announced his abdication and partial de-escalation in Viet Nam. (Everyone had learned to expect such sudden surprises from 1968, and from L.B.J., that till the last moment there was doubt if he really meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT A YEAR! | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...described by a German admirer as "a being of exquisite sensitivity. Culture! That's what she lived for. She walked in beauty! She inspired heroism and sacrifice! Our students were taught to love her, even in kindergarten!" To which Genghis Cohn replies sardonically with a reminiscence of the moment when he and his fellow victims were digging their own grave before their execution: "Sio-ma Kapelusznik moved a bit closer to me, winked, and then said: 'Culture is when mothers who are holding their babies in their arms are excused from digging their own graves before being shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Immanent Jew | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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