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...church's defending the rights of the oppressed-but not by political means that have more in common with Marxism than Christianity. Many local Jesuits disagree that any kind of Marxism is their goal. Says Father Jon Sobrino, who teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Siméon Cañnas in San Salvador: "We Jesuits have not chosen an ideology. The basic problem is reality itself. When you see corpses or children starving, what makes you react is reality, not some abstract idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Pope's Troubled Marines | 9/7/1981 | See Source »

...every way, the ferocity of the Weimar artists echoed the instability of the society itself, its institutions continually atotter from the assaults of left and right, of which the final result was the triumph of Hitler. But to classify them all (as the catalogue sloppily does) as "realist" is sim ply to abolish the meaning of the word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Twenties' Bleak New World | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...there anything more tedious than someone else's mid-life crisis? The answer, sadly, is yes. It is a movie about that familiar anguish made without a trace of humor, intelligence, originality or perspective. To put the matter more sim ply, Middle Age Crazy more than lives up to its blunt and witless title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fidgets at 40 | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

When I got out of the Navy in 1942, I worked with a Chilean economist, Raul Simón. Smartest man I've ever met. He used to tell me what was going to happen in Latin America. He'd say: "The population is increasing 2% to 3% a year. These people are all going to crowd into the cities, and none of them are going to have jobs. The politicians are going to promise them everything. If you keep your company in Latin America, you will go down the drain." So, when I became chief executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executive View by Marshall Loeb: Looking for Longer Horizons | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

...could well split if businessmen grow disenchanted with the socialist policies advocated by the Sandinistas. Surprisingly, the first serious threat came from the extreme left. Dissatisfied with the government's plans for building a mixed economy melding public and private enterprise, 60 Latin-American Trotskyites, calling themselves the Simón Bolívar Brigade, incited a demonstration by 3,000 Managua factory workers demanding compensation for wages lost during the revolution. The revolutionary government reacted by ordering its armed forces to put the Trotskyites on a plane to Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Steering a Middle Course | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

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