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...take in one gorgeous nude body after another as the girls engage in pillow fights and unmentionable other acts. Yet there is nothing sordid about his voyeurism; it seems almost pure. That is because the Lampoon people understand the darkest secret of an American college education: one of the noblest reasons to go is to spend four years studying sex. -Frank Rich

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: School Days | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn: Decline of the West | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...visual memory. But the show's organizers, Art Historians Charles Moffett of the Met and James N. Wood of the St. Louis Art Museum, have disclosed the minute differences in an exemplary way: the sight of the variations en série, hung together, is one of the noblest spectacles of fine discrimination in the history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Old Man and the Pond | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...script of instinctive hatred, of malice and fury for their own sakes. Whatever merits remain in the IRA's arguments for the liberation of Ulster--and they are considerable--have been irretrievably submerged in the centuries-old game of kill-me-kill-you. It is, in short, hardly the noblest of causes...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Broken Dreams and Kneecaps | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context. But the freeing of imagination by the surrealists remains a tremendous achievement. Be yond the froth - the ideological absurdities, the rampant narcissism, the window display and chic decor - surrealism remains one of the century's noblest proposals of liberty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Scions and Portents of Dada | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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