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...lesson we learned from Viet Nam is that we should be very cautious about intervening in any place where there's a poor political base for our presence." Brown also learned a more personal lesson. Says a colleague: "Viet Nam showed him there are some problems that have no neat solution, no technical answer, no matter how many times you redo the formula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: NO LONGER A KID BUT STILL A WHIZ | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...continued to provide surprises, innovatively synthesizing the many influences that have poured into his creative mind during the course of his years in the business. And Festival provides the most resounding affirmation of this steady metamorphosizing to date, demonstrating Santana's singular knack for not falling into a neat category...

Author: By Jose LUIS Contreras, | Title: Oye Como Va Carlos... | 5/20/1977 | See Source »

...voice of the radical fringe, has so flourished that a big commercial publisher wants to add it to his string of properties. The staffers have outlived their heady days of protest and dissent ("We were dangerous then," says one wistfully). They are coasting, but restlessly. The situation is a neat distillation of the moment in our cultural history when the 1960s turned into the 1970s?though the movie, in one of its few blunders, anomalously sets the action in the present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Counterculture Variations | 5/9/1977 | See Source »

...neat number even when there are only nine things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Help for the Listless | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

...member of the foursome (Ned Sherrin) acts as a kind of M.C. and spins off topical jests with the aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: String of Pearls | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

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