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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such mid-life crises threaten to become as much a cliché in literature as they are in life. Yet Piers Paul Read, 38, puts a lot of his native English on this familiar pitch. He knows, as most chroniclers of Me Decade shenanigans do not, that private acts have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Acts | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Daydreaming about the death of a spouse is a punishable offense in the world of this novel, particularly when the dreamer has a girlfriend with limitless funds and a small portfolio of scruples. When Clare does indeed die violently, Strickland and the London police seem curiously unwilling to suspect the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Acts | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Eighteen years after the Gablers began their crusade, Edward Jenkinson, professor of education at Indiana University, calls them "the two most powerful people in education today." That is an overstatement. But the Gablers have certainly inspired attacks on textbooks by a host of community groups and thousands of parents throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

Their most frequent complaints: political bias, lack of patriotism and failure to provide students with firm moral guidance. The nine-room house the Gablers built in 1965 in Longview, Texas, is crammed with shelves of textbooks and copies of line-by-line listings of their objections and those lodged by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

"We're not censors," argues Mel, adding, "only people with authority can censor." The Gablers simply make their views available to school board members and concerned parents, Norma explains. "They could read the books themselves but for us to read them will save hundreds of hours of time. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Was Robin Just a Hood? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

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