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A. I wasn't a diplomat. I was an international civil servant, which is a completely different thing. I don't like the word diplomat, actually. The ordinary person thinks of people in striped pants at a cocktail party or at a green baize table engaging in circumlocutions about serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: A Very Civil Servant, Sir Brian Urquhart | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Only English Spoken Here | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

The posters feature a picture of a partiallyopen pants zipper with the slogan, "ZIP the Fly(and all other sexist clubs)." One poster reads,"In high school, the only place to get away fromwomen was the men's bathroom. Harvard is so muchbetter. Here we have a whole house!"

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: New Group Uses Humor, Feminism to Fight Clubs | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

Putting such pitfalls aside and fully aware that I'm no psychiatrist, I feel confident in saying that you don't have to be a genius to realize that possibly Goodwin himself could use a little couch time. "I've always viewed slacks," he writes about his dating experiences, "as...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Richard Goodwin: Monday Morning Psychoanalyst | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

The expert on sticky situations, the Athletic-turned-Dodger Howell, says of his ex-teammates, "They're all pretty calm that way, studied, directed, prepared -- they're real prepared." His obvious reference is to Tony La Russa, 44, a thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Classic Falls and Fall Classics | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

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