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...what seems to be the terminal lust of the Globatron girls in All That Glitters. Seven years ago ABC rejected All in the Family, a fact that officials of network affiliates still discuss with steel in their voices. For Norman Lear, who produced all three shows, Soap is the sincerest form of flattery, a sweaty attempt to play catch-up with his old comedies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Is Prime Time Ready for Sex? | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...recent "white roots" phenomenon is a reversal of U.S. tradition. In other periods, immigration was the sincerest form of flattery. Many of the populations that came to the U.S. were in flight from the past. To them, the concept of a new world was no metaphor: for the first time they were free of regal decree and military repression, released from the specters of famine and caste. In fact, the importance of lineage had been eroding since the Middle Ages. Rising middle classes demanded recognition for performance, not tradition. The Industrial Revolution identified the worker, like his machinery, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Climbing All Over the Family Trees | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

...really trying to get me with my own sword, aren't you. You've even adopted my phrase, that one about the brutal question. But don't you have a proverb, in English, "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?" For all your vulgar attacks, you seem to have read my interviews closely; they fascinated you, I can see from these questions...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: A Monologue With History | 5/24/1976 | See Source »

...extend my sincerest congratulations to Dan Jiggets upon his election as captain of the 1975 Harvard varsity football squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letter to the Sports Editor | 12/11/1974 | See Source »

...Kent State and Jackson State--as well as at the Watergate--I would like once more to extend to the parents and friends of the four Kent State University students and to American people and students our militant solidarity, our muted and sorrowful condolences, and our profound and sincerest gratitude for their act of justice and support they gave the Cambodian people's just struggle for national salvation...

Author: By Huot Samboth, | Title: Destroying Cambodia's Peace | 5/14/1974 | See Source »

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