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Situated on the southern shore of beautiful Lake Winnebago, the Wisconsin city of Fond du Lac (pop. 34,400) appears to be a pleasant haven far removed from the poverty and pain of the nation's recession-struck cities. Peopled mainly by second-and third-generation descendants of German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Waiting in a Tense Town | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

The 1930s was the decade which saw the rise of "proletarian literature," the politically-loaded fiction of the Communist Party. This genre of writing was peopled by workers with hairy forearms who became converts to Communism; toughened Party members constantly mediating a strike; and villainous foremen who interceded for the...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: William Phillips: Partisan Review Retrospective | 1/4/1980 | See Source »

Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Triumphant Victim | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

Dr. Strangelove. Perhaps a timely warning in view of China's recent misbehavior, Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy about dropping the A-bomb, returns this weekend. Kubrick creates an absurd and violent society (some say something like our own), peopled by the likes of General Jack D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Man of the Hour, on Some Of the Best Films of the Year | 3/1/1979 | See Source »

I was surprised to learn that the acronym ECAR stands for East Central Reliability Council. While visiting Pebble Beach, Calif., I was informed that the Monterey Peninsula was peopled mostly by ECARs: Elderly. Conservative. Affluent Republicans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

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