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Not only did we fail to forge alliances, we could not even center on the issues around which we would struggle. The conflict lacked definition, and so the climax, and hence resolution, never even appeared. Gene, so pallid and pathetic after Bella's explosive challenge, mumbled on of Consequences and...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Teach-In II Of Sin and Sanders | 2/25/1971 | See Source »

In 1966 Tony Tankersley was just beginning his graduate studies when he discovered political activism: "At first I mixed with a loose-knit group of Old Lefties and Black Panthers, but it did not take long for me to make the transition to the hip radical world-a world I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling Of America: The Recantations of a Reformed Berkeley Bomber | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

The peace rally last week in front of the White House gates was a thin shadow of those massive war marches that used to fill this city. A few hundred pathetic kids and their faded gurus broke some windows and shouted their slogans and then dissolved into the chill dusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling Of America: Middle America Is Not Back Where It Started | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

New York City Mayor John Lindsay faces perhaps the most staggering crisis of all. His welfare population?1,100,000, every seventh New Yorker?could constitute the seventh largest municipality in the U.S. The aid bill for that doomed city within the city last year: $1.7 billion, a sixfold increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Welfare: Trying to End the Nightmare | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

Smirking Androgynes. But the cast has little significance in The Music Lovers. Its arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture. In Women in Love, Ken Russell turned D.H. Lawrence into tinted steam. In The Music Lovers, he makes Tchaikovsky step to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: False Notes | 2/8/1971 | See Source »

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