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This week's cover stories mark a turning point in the life of a singular generation. The rebellious kids of the '60s who stoutly declared they would "never trust anyone over 30" are themselves now turning 40. Contemplating this occasion, TIME's own aging Baby Boomers and their elders thought it provided a unique opportunity to reflect not only on the idiosyncrasies of a generation but on the many changes and tensions over the past several decades of American life...
...audience of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" the same evening that Peter Krause reviewed it. We found several aspects of his review disturbing. Even though Krause is clearly aware that Charlie Brown was a "charity production," the content of his review suggests that he has a singular lack of sensitivity to this fact...
...singular draftsman. Lopez's pencil drawings, both tiny and enormous --Water Closet, 1970-73, is 8 ft. high--display a command over the medium unique in 20th century realism. Who else has achieved such finesse of tone, such a steely grasp of hallucinatory detail within the ordinary, such a disdain for visual clutter? At their best, the drawings are a mesmerizing conjunction of opposites. On one hand, the patient surface, rubbed and reworked to a silvery bloom punctuated with dark points of attention, anxiously tender and very seductive to the eye; on the other, a kind of silent rawness...
...Rosenthal's illustrious predecessors as editor of a New York newspaper was Horace Greeley of the Tribune, which no longer exists. It was an affectation of Greeley's to pluralize as the English do when a singular word has a plural context, as in "the government are concerned." Once Greeley impatiently cabled one of his correspondents, "Are there any news?" Back came the answer: "Sorry, not a single new." That unsung correspondent may only have intended a funny reply, but he appears to have had a firm grip on what needs to be reported...
...meet her, Isak Dinesen, storyteller. But before that she was Baroness Karen Blixen, who in 1913-14 exchanged family money for a title, a farm in Kenya and the 17 years of experience that, distilled to its essence, would form the basis for one of this century's truly singular literary compositions, Out of Africa...