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...musical? A filmed musical? Some really alarming risk-taking on one of Joe Papp's stages? Say her friend Papp: "I'm convinced we haven't yet begun to see the richness of her talent." In fact, says this cheerfully biased stage director, "in films?which always do the obvious???we've only seen about ten percent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes Meryl Magic | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...Where the hell is a better transit system for a city of 200,000 than a first-class bus system?"asks GM's Gerstenberg. The car manufacturers' self-interest is obvious???they are the big busmakers?but they have some convincing statistics. The auto has brought about such a gigantic demographic dispersion that only rubber wheels can effectively tie a metropolitan area together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Painful Change to Thinking Small | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...face of huge, impersonal, Kafkaesque institutions. At a time when more and more citizens are questioning the degree to which they control their own destinies, the military, with its rigid hierarchy, its demand for total obedience, and above all, its tropistic reaching-out for ever more armaments, is an obvious???and perhaps valid?target. An increasing number of officers, to be sure, are getting broad educations and display considerable political and social sensitivity. Still, the military as a whole, with its tendency toward stiffness and even narrowness, rarely copes well with the challenge of dissent. Thus, a military court meted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE MILITARY: SERVANT OR MASTER OF POLICY? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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