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Then comes the general commentary. Adjectives like "pretentious," "sleazy" and merely "stupid," nouns like "gibberish," "bunk" and "rubbish" fly from the page like hot spittle. The world suddenly becomes overrun with "boobs" and "nitwits" and "barbarians" and their synonyms: "vice presidents," "curriculum developers" and, above all, "educationists" who have made careers out of not teaching Johnny to read while not learning to write themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glassboro, N.J.: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

More than 15 years after a battered old coin was discovered in an ancient Indian rubbish heap near the coastal town of Blue Hill, it was belatedly identified by scholars as a Norse artifact dating back to the 11th century-making it the oldest European object ever found in the U.S. What is more, the find reopened all the old arguments about who really discovered America: Columbus or some Viking predecessors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bye, Columbus | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...hope Pope John Paul I, a good and humble man, will have the vision to see across the waters to essentially Catholic Brazil, where "thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish." When, because of the teachings of society or the church, individuals consider it more sinful to practice birth control than to dump young children into the street to steal, prostitute themselves or starve, something has to be wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1978 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...Front-dominated government, and that the price of the Front's cooperation should be a letter of resignation by Smith. It was Nyerere who revealed to the press on Sept. 1 that the secret meeting had taken place. Nkomo at first denied the report as "a load of rubbish." Later he reluctantly confirmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Seeds of Political Destruction | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...earn about $75 per month, scarcely enough to survive in a wooden and tin-can hovel, let alone support her children. At the same time, the peasants contribute endlessly to a stunningly high birth rate (37.1 per thousand). Thousands of parents are forced to cast their offspring out like rubbish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Brazil's Wasted Generation | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

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