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...been imported to this enclave surrounded by clusters of old three-deckers and empty lots where our age-mates, back from the service, are pounding the pavements, where young women strangely haggard work the night shift and Dunkin Donuts, where men with lunchpails punch in at Finast and Fenton Shoe, where old women on their way to our dining halls slip off gaseous buses onto the ice before dawn? What are we doing here? How shall we live? Are we somehow part of their burden? Will we always stand over against them...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Above The Battle: The Price We Pay | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

TIME has not been known for its reluctance to drop the other shoe. In your piece marking the 40th anniversary of the DC-3 [Dec. 29], you say, "Dwight Eisenhower hailed the plane as one of the five pieces of equipment that did most to win World War II." So-may we know what the other four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jan. 26, 1976 | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...hardest things for him, however, was the vaudeville soft-shoe movement. Says Tharp: "It's not virtuoso dancing-all you do is handle a hat. You simply imply that you dance so well that you dare the audience to watch you. It requires a Gary Grant refinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: A Touch of Tharp | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...himself as a Republican. "Watergate largely cured me", he says. "I think the party disgraced itself. The general line is that Watergate wasn't a party matter; it was a Nixon matter. It was a party matter: it was a party test, and the party failed it. Had the shoe been on the other foot, the Democrats would have failed as miserably, but they didn't. Life's unfair and life put the shoe on the Republicans' foot." He describes Nixon as "the worst president the country ever had," but doesn't hesitate to admit a general, if rather vague...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Cerberus of the Right | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

CAROL SUTTON: Soft-Shoe Editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Dozen Who Made a Difference | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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