Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S PEOPLE section no longer begins with the phrase "Names make news," but the aphorism is still apt for the entire magazine. To report events and the underlying issues is our main mission; in fact, during highly complex times, issues and ideas are more important than ever. But TIME'S editors and writers also constantly strive to tell their stories in terms of people. They look for the grand gestures and the little affectations that make a characterization live. The dramatis personae this week feature Sister Anita Caspary and Former Bishop James P. Shannon, who symbolize...
...File. Lyons rushes downtown to the New York Post, where he runs his notes through a battered Royal. Somewhere amid the clutter of his small office is the famous Lyons card file: every time someone is mentioned in his column, the date and a key word or phrase are entered on his card. A card is good for about 20 entries. Then another card, and another. George Jessel, Barbra Streisand and John Lindsay all have 22 cards. J.F.K., R.F.K. and E.M.K. have, respectively, 47, 18 and five. Harry Truman leads the pack with...
...heard them all over. Popular fiction, whether in television, films novels, or plays, is made of these false I-didn't-knows. That's what you call sentimental writing. That's the pornography of feeling.. And that's the way we cop out, to use a favorite phrase of your generation...
Lesotho is in many ways an undistinguished country. The Switzerland of Southern Africa, travel writers have termed her, but the phrase is much too glib. This is no Alpine wonderland; the surface beauty of the gnarled Maluti mountains masks a state of poverty that is among the most abject on earth...
...standard of living" society, the community of the "?lent majority," then, is close-minded. Progressive thought, which threatens social equilibrium, is hardly tolerated. The political system, here and abroad, the self-sustaining standard-of-living ideal, the American way of life. Boorstin has coined a phrase, the "self-fulfilling prophecy," which perfectly describes the circular thrust of America's standard of living ideology. Tocqueville saw the same tendency in 1830 when he declared. "The majority lives in the perpetual utterance of self-applause...