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...Were the Soviets abrupt and even rude in their treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME INTERVIEW: Vance: 'The Ball Is in Their Court' | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...share of the total three-network news audience has not changed. Rallying to Walters' defense, the Washington Post's Sally Quinn argued that Walters' coanchor, Harry Reasoner, should be the one given the boot: "He's insulting her on the air. He's being rude and sarcastic and putting her down." Richard Salant, president of CBS News, is also sympathetic. Says he: "She's taking an awful licking." Walters herself seems unruffled. "The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated," she maintains. "The only ones who don't seem to be concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 28, 1977 | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

Fell argues elsewhere that Phoenician voyagers populated their American colonies with Iberian workers whose "rude manner of life" accounts for the lack of sophisticated material objects at the sites he says they occupied. Nevertheless, these hypothesized, uncultured people supposedly learned to read and write the Phoenician language. Fell says the inscriptions they left prove this...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...social signals. But social kissing is also rampant in California, usually in the form of a double peck on the cheeks. Many believe it has gone too far. Says Los Angeles Social Leader Betsy Bloomingdale: "I find myself kissing and wishing I hadn't. You risk being rude if you kiss one person and not another. And there are awkward moments when you don't know whether to kiss or not to kiss. Usually, you kiss just to be safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE GREAT KISSING EPIDEMIC | 2/7/1977 | See Source »

That something like this could happen at Harvard, at last rumor a school for intelligent, sensitive people, not rude insensitive brats with high SAT scores, is very disappointing. This desperate play for attention was not at all amusing. It was a sad illustration of how many people here are insensitive to women and incapable of relating to them on a healthy basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Immaturity | 1/26/1977 | See Source »

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