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Dates: during 1970-1979
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On the issues, Jackson has shrewdly and forcefully blended a conservatism on foreign affairs and many social questions with a traditional liberalism on economics and civil rights. The issue of detente is almost his own. He started complaining about a one-way street long before the phrase was picked up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Moment of Charisma | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Bump Incomes. Kerry put much of the blame on officials. Troubled churches write in for help and their pleas go unanswered, he claimed, and devout practitioners receive abusive letters. The all-powerful five-member Board of Directors, he added, avoids urgent matters. Even so, he said, the directors are paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Attack on Mother Church | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

Pandemonium broke out in the managerial offices upstairs at Symphony since no one could find the soloist, who was scheduled to rehearse with the orchestra two hours earlier. When a Harvard official finally located him after remembering that Rostropovich had stayed at the Colonnade on his last trip to Boston...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: From Russia, With Love | 2/25/1976 | See Source »

These warnings are reminiscent of Administration pleas in early 1975 for last-ditch aid to failing anti-Communist governments in Saigon and Phnom-Penh. In the Wall Street Journal last week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., charged the Administration with unnecessary hyperbole and suspect logic. "I strongly doubt," he argued, "that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: How Much Has Angola Hurt the U.S.? | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

The one right that is most frequently trampled on, noted Spanish Philosopher Ortega y Gasset, 40 years ago, is the right to continuity. It is that essential link with the past that Bell is intent on reforging. Others are entering similar pleas, but Bell's seems the most brilliantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Search for Civitas | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

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