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...were silly like us," Auden wrote of Irish Poet William Butler Yeats, but the truth is that Yeats was sillier, more willing to appear foolish and embrace mumbo jumbo in service to his art. Auden's way was very different, circumspect; his poetry achieved greatness but never reached out for Yeatsian grandeur. He wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...antiabortion bill will be sillier than the Prohibition Amendment, unless a holy inquisition enforces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...ways for meeting them. On construction sites, the agency simultaneously demands that trucks and other heavy-duty vehicles have loud back-up horns and that workers wear hearing protectors to cut down noise levels. Although the agency has widely trumpeted its recent attempts to eliminate some of its sillier rules, many still remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Rising Risks of Regulation | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...sillier flourishes of the show fade from memory, however, whenever Jason Robards is on the screen. Fresh from his Oscar-winning portrayal of Nixon Nemesis Ben Bradlee, Robards now provides a quintessential Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High Soap Opera in D.C. | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

...sold millions of records. He played Vegas, got married, filled amphitheaters, got divorced, lived a gaudy life so high and wide that it seemed like a parody of an American success story. And he kept selling records, well over 500 million in all. The music got slicker and often sillier, turned from rock toward rhinestone country and spangled gospel. Only the pace remained the same. Elvis Aron Presley always lived fast, and last week, at the age of 42, that was the way he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Last Stop on the Mystery Train | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

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