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...smartest race on earth? Many nominate the Jews, whose intellectual achievements are out of proportion to their small numbers. C.P. Snow thinks the Japanese may be even brighter. Such musings are best muttered at late night bull sessions. In public, ranking races by intelligence is apt to smack of simple racism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Return of Arthur Jensen | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

Congressmen and Senators of both parties were upset. Said a Democratic congressional leader: "The wholesale resignations smack of p.r. gimmickry, misplaced machismo. I thought that he had his ship pointed in the right direction, but..." Said House Republican Leader John Rhodes: "It's crazy. It's just like what Richard Nixon did in "72." Others were upset about the targets of Carter's purge. Said Democratic Congressman Charles Wilson of Texas: "Good grief! They're cutting down the biggest trees and keeping the monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter's Great Purge | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...shortage forces them to rely much less on their large cars, millions of Americans have run smack into a painful reality: unlike all other industrial nations, the U.S. lacks a coherent, efficient and low-cost system of mass transportation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Mess In Mass Transit | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Green Berets, perhaps the only movie yet filmed that should be banned as obscene. People tend to underestimate the influence of a movie like that on the wardheelers and bored millionaires whom Americans elect to send them to wars. Wayne knew nothing about Vietnam, about killing babies and shooting smack and blowing your lieutenant's head off after he told you to take Hill #34. He shot the movie in Georgia, where people think they know about war but it takes 40 of them for a lynching...

Author: By David B. Edelstein, | Title: Ding Dong | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...just wants to get out with the big score--two kilos of heroin. His carrier is Nolte, a Nietzsche-reading, Zen master he knew in the Marines. But Moriarty has no idea just how much entrepeneurial capitalism is frowned upon by corporate America--just who do you cross, running smack from the Golden Triangle? The CIA? The Mob? While Moriarty ponders that, with the aid of two alternately humorous and sadistic thugs, Nolte and Weld are running for their lives, down to Los Angeles and finally out into the desert to an abandoned hippy enclave where Nolte once lived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In a World Where Flying Men Hunt Elephants......People Will Just Naturally Want to Get High | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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