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...does without a strong central character around whom the action can revolve. It offers instead the Ventura family: seven adults and their spouses plus 33 children ranging in age from six to 16. This clan spends every summer at Marulanda, a magnificent, fenced-in estate, with a vast plain outside stretching to the horizon in all directions. Barely visible are the blue mountains beyond, where laborers who are virtual slaves mine the Ventura gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imaginative Enchantments | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

Enforcement would be a somewhat controversial and Orwellian issue, but it would add new prestige and purpose to the Harvard Police Force. No more letting people into their rooms, breaking up keg parties, and plain old chatting the day away near the Gulf Station on Mass. Ave--not for Harvard's finest, "The Politeness Police...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: In Loco Parentis? | 2/18/1984 | See Source »

...fear of assassination has also been overdrawn. The threat is there, as Reagan knows better than anyone. The idea of dying with his boots on is not something any President talks about publicly. But in private a couple of them have made it plain that it is better to take that chance than wither away idly in a rocking chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Never Yearning for Home | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...carcinogen in food, in practice the Government allows small levels if the cost of eliminating the cancer-causing substance is too high. The difficulty is weighing possible future lives lost against immediate economic cost. Consumers who fear any EDB at all can return to an old but forsaken faithful: plain white bread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...line is Gait MacDermot, 55, whose The Human Comedy is currently playing at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan. Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel, Comedy is a sprawling, episodic work that contains 84 separate musical numbers and lasts 2½ hours. MacDermot's plain, open-faced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel singing, is ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated. Just as MacDermot's 1967 Hair resonated in the era of tribal-love rock, so does The Human Comedy take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Bluesy Hymn to Sturdy Values | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

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