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...liberal moralists retreat at night to their suburban fastnesses. Such whites view bussing, for example, as a scheme to move their chil dren to worse public schools while rich children escape to pri vate schools. In typical response, a West Coast carpenter moonlights without reporting his side income. "Screw the Government," he says. "They just give it to some black bas tard anyway for doing nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: TO REMEMBER FORGOTTEN AMERICA' | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

...Bellflower, Calif. He fought anyway, lost a split decision and ended up in a cast with three cracked vertebrae. Nonetheless, he went into the Frazier bout with only two losses in 37 fights; he was billed by his followers as the first great white hope since Rocky Marciano. "Screw white hopes," Quarry snapped. "I'm a fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boxing: Winner, and Still (Partial) Champ | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...terrible world "of blighted childhoods," Edel observes, he frequently practiced a sort of "spiritual transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short story about children in English, certainly the best modern ghost story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Turn of the Screw | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

Double-Entendres. Berrocal's own sculptures are the best advertisement of his professional skills. They are composed of as many as 40 tightly interlocking parts, so intricately fitted that never a bolt or a screw is necessary. Taken apart, they look like a field strip of some improbable machine gun. Putting them together again requires the aid of an instruction sheet, which accompanies each work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Take Apart and Look Again | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Screw that," Tim said grinning...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The World is a Big Box | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

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