Word: personals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usually the Man of the Year is just that-the individual who, for good or ill, made the largest entry in the year's annals. But occasionally no one person seems to dominate current history as much as the embodiment of a group. TIME found this to be the case in 1950, during the Korean War, when the Man of the Year was neither a general nor a statesman but the American Fighting Man. It was so in 1956, when our choice was the Hungarian Freedom Fighter, who briefly and tragically rose against Soviet power, inaugurating...
...possible to paint the portrait of an entire generation?" Artist Robert Vickrey provides his own answer in his study of the four young people on the cover. None is a real person, but when one editor saw the finished picture, he remarked that the handsome youth in the foreground suggested a portrait of the artist as a young man. "Something of that might have slipped in," Vickrey allowed. As for our word portrait, it includes more faces, more facets, and greater complexities. It includes, we hope, the varied spirit of a generation that is anything but faceless. And we also...
...make babies. Standing up in two-piece long Johns as the monologue continued, Per fiddled with the waistband, finally pulled them off to reveal-a pair of shorts. As viewers gripped their armchairs, the shorts came off too, disclosing a striped bathing suit. "I'm just an impulsive person by nature," said Oscarsson...
World as Wilderness. Muggeridge is compulsively nasty to politicians, whatever their party. "Macmillan," he wrote, "seemed in his very person to embody the national decay he supposed himself to be confuting. He exuded a flavor of mothballs." Churchill, whose writings were "gaseous and overwritten," became a "kind of totem." In his old age, he was "produced as totems are, to keep up tribal morale." As for liberalism, said Muggeridge, it is "really just a death wish. We liberals are so made that anyone who wants to murder us is a hero and anyone foolish enough to be on our side...
...Freeman) ordering federal judges in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to use the American Law Institute's new insanity test. By that test, "a person is not responsible for criminal conduct if at the time of such conduct, as a result of men tal disease or defect, he lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of law." Last month the same appellate court reversed Shelter's conviction and ordered a new trial in which he can seek acquittal by reason of Freeman-style insanity...