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Finding something for oneself is a recurring theme among the members of the Class of '56 as they reflect on the years since they left school and started families. Among their numbers are numerous success stories--women who never lost sight of their personal goals and achieved them while at the same time raising children, and others who spent 20 happy years as full-time mothers and wives and may have begun careers only recently...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Not-So-Silent Generation | 6/2/1981 | See Source »

...strengths of the album lie not in the cover songs like Rockpile, but instead in the writing of Schwarz himself. It must be a comedown to go from a band with Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm named after oneself to front a band always known as "Graham Parker and the" of "Garland Jeffreys and the", but Brinsley has held up fine. The mix of his Brylcreem look and Martin Belmont's paunchy, fish-blowing-bubbles look are reflected in their complementary guitar styles, crafted pop and raunchy reggae...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Snap, Crackle Pop Rock | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

...Japanese, "nuclear stockpiles have grown . . . Even if a mere fraction of the available weapons were to be used, one has to ask whether . . . the very destruction of humanity is not a real possibility." He added: "To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Pilgrim for Peace | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...BOOK HAS its ups as well as downs, however. After all, a tight end on the Harvard football team says that there are only two types of people: the Irish, and those who want to be Irish. One finds oneself trapped in adoration of O'Hara...

Author: By Robert F. Deitch, | Title: A Rage To Live | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...Angeles: "We have found that for some people it's a safe place, for others it's scary. But it has on the whole been very useful." Adds Dr. Elmer Cranton, president of the American Holistic Medical Association: "How could it not be beneficial to understand oneself-unless something is too heavy to handle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Off the Couch and into the Tub | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

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