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...stalemated Suez Canal issue. Such a confrontation is not likely, but the offer gave Eban a chance to criticize and praise the U.N. in its 26th year. Eban lamented that "in the work of the U.N. there is a strong accent on public controversy and a relative neglect of private conciliation." But he also noted that "this organization, for all its imperfection, is the only organized expression of the planetary spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Planetary Spirit | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

Later, he said, "Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 because people like you sat on their hands... And so we have Warren Burger in place of Earl Warren. And so we almost had George Harold Carswell. We have the Southern strategy and benign neglect...we have the Commander-in-Chief going out of his way to support both William Calley at My Lai and Nelson Rockefeller at Attica...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Kennedy Tells Students To Shake Off Lethargy | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

Bernie's personal superbawl charges that many pro games are fixed; the unconvincing argument is based chiefly on the theory that it can be done. He points out that an official could drop a flag for a holding penalty, conveniently annulling a touchdown. An offensive tackle can neglect to block his man on a crucial play, allowing the quarterback to be smeared. An assistant coach could tip off opponents to his team's signals and game plan. But Parrish proves no specific instances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superbawl | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...25th century anthropologists. They contain such data as winners' measurements, figure trends (waists getting narrower, hips and busts balancing at the ideal of 35½-22½-35½), and the fact that there have been 228 contestants whose first names began with the letter M. To neglect such trivia is to neglect the whole point of the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Queen for a year | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...Also, like all lovers, he is less disturbed by those who neglect his beloved than by his rivals in attendance. The man who brings out the best, and the worst, in Steiner is the most prestigious specialist in linguistics today, Noam Chomsky. Steiner, with romance in his heart and the ultimate language of poetry on his lips, approaches linguistics on his knees. Chomsky, full of crisp talk about "data handling" and "feedback," confronts language in a white smock-the scientist of semantics. "Is there, in fact, a 'linguistic science'?" Steiner asks, arguing that the new scientific dogmatism about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Babel Revisited | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

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