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I tried rational tactics, I tried emotional ones--nothing worked. I told her it was almost Christmas time. She didn't listen. She was wearing the plastic Santa Claus head with the pull-jerk red light nose that she wore every day from December first until vacation. It mocked me...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Pax in Terra: Even to You, Miss Davis | 12/20/1973 | See Source »

BUT I THINK there's also a rational argument for freeing Armstrong.

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Karleton Armstrong | 12/11/1973 | See Source »

TO DO JUSTICE to Philip LaZebnik's The Teeth of Mons Herbert would be to write a review backwards or in pig-Latin. From the first view of the set to the rousing Schlusschor there unfolds an endless train of absurdities that defies rational criticism. This is an extremely witty...

Author: By Jonathan Sheffer, | Title: Solid Gold Teeth | 12/8/1973 | See Source »

In the early 1970s, as a writer for LIFE, she began to travel back and forth across the U.S. talking to all sorts of women. Strong currents of discontent were already running. Were women finding new roles or clinging to the old ones, and with what degree of satisfaction? Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girls' Realm | 12/3/1973 | See Source »

But so far, at least, there are strong indications that both Government and environmental leaders are striving for rational compromises to meet the crisis. Last week, for example, the Environmental Protection Agency staunchly defended air-quality standards set in the Clean Air Act. "We're going to be under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIORITIES: The Hopeful Environmental View | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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