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...total indifference among the young. "They feel they had nothing to do with making the world the mess it is today, and they're also not going to do anything to make it any better-because they can't. They come to the music for the sake of the music, for entertainment, for getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthems of the Blank Generation | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

Little Impact. Despite the eagerness of Grenada's Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy, to prolong the meeting for the sake of prestige and to keep his hotels filled in the offseason, most of the foreign ministers had packed up by week's end and headed home. Deputies were left in charge of their delegations. While some resolutions will undoubtedly be adopted, they will, as usual, have little impact. Complained one delegate: "Many countries seem to downgrade the OAS once these meetings are over. We spend a lot of time spinning wheels." U.S. delegates had little hope that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: ... and Another in Grenada | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

There were rumors of a military coup, but after a tense meeting, the conservative Army Superior Council agreed to accept the government's decision "for patriotism's sake." Exiles were given passports to return home. Carrillo led the way, followed by others, including La Pasionaria from Moscow and Communist Poet Rafael Alberti from Rome. This spring Suárez's government legalized trade unions and restored the right of workers to strike. Finally, it reestablished diplomatic relations, severed since 1939, with the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: VOTERS SAY 'S | 6/27/1977 | See Source »

...good, then I'm sure to know his coach, or else I know somebody else who does. And if we can get an alumnus to talk to him and he still doesn't have the desire to send in a goddamn letter of application, then for Pete's sake, who wants...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Body-hunting at Harvard | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...eyed silence millions watched the purgatorial unpeeling of the Nixon soul as angel hosts intoned, "Will he ever say to the silent Witness, "God be merciful to me a sinner and save me for Jesus' sake'?" Colson and Magruder did it; why can't Richard Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 30, 1977 | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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