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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sociobiology [Aug. 1], like other theories that deny the importance of the individual mind and conscience, will sweep the nation. Instead of saying, "The devil made me do it," one can now be scientific and say, "I can't help it; it's in my genes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1977 | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

Hugh Sidey's assessment [Aug. 1] of President Carter's first six months vis-à-vis the national mood is right on! The nation wants and needs an administrator, not a salesman. Espousing catch-phrase slogans is the easy work of politics; executing successful programs is the difficult work of Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1977 | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...body wasn't working too well--and as an allegory for the condition of the country. Just as people recover from illness, Mee writes, so democratic republics will revive even if they lapse into oligarchy, as America has. The logical connection between one person's physical health and the nation's political health may seem weak, but Mee manages to make the individual-social analogy work there, as he does throughout the book...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Dealing With History | 8/16/1977 | See Source »

...delusion to think 1 that the country is finished with what sused to be called Woodstock Nation. Pierre Joseph Proudhon warned about "the fecundity of the unexpected." The present comparative quiet probably will not last. Issues such as nuclear energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb), the environment, the economy, unemployment and the urban underclass all lie in wait for anyone who approaches the future complacently. It would of course be difficult for history to duplicate the long, wild hallucination of the '60s. But Rahv's ten-year rule applies to historical pauses as well as upheavals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: An Elegy for the New Left | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Like the New York Times, would-be use papers from the nighty New York News (circ. 2 million, the nation's largest) to the Albuquerque Journal (circ. 75,000) are launching how-to-do-it, where-to-get-it supplements. Papers that have had such news print service stations for years are allowing them more space and promoting them more heavily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kingdom And the Cabbage | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

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