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...part of him, were free, theoretically, to sail in and raise hell up and down the American mind, waving torches, screaming anarchy. Somehow they do not seem that incendiary. Fo's creations sometimes look like Bertolt Brecht being done by the Marx Brothers. The anarchism savors of Duck Soup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Left-Wing Duck Soup | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

Chief among the issues confronting the new archbishop will be the condition of Boston's thousands of Hispanics. Currently, many immigrant Hispanics rely on the church for such community services as shelters for the homeless, instruction in English, and church-funded soup kitchens...

Author: By Sonya C. Laurence, | Title: New Archbishop Will Face Minority Concerns | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...Soviet Union as they set off to begin mandatory military service. Except for those who have been selected for three-year stints in the navy and border guard, the new draftees will begin two years of rigorous training, living in spartan barracks and eating such fare as greasy soup, cabbage, potatoes and salted fish. In the event of war, the military can draft 5 million more men from active reserve and an additional 40 million who are obliged to answer the call until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: A One-Dimensional World Power | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...ADMINISTRATION officials have acted more consistently to show the ugliest features of Reaganism than White House counselor Edwin Meese III. It was Meese who recently raised anew the Reagan government's callousness and insensitivity, when he questioned concern over hunger in the country, and implied that many people in soup lines were really not impoverished. It was Meese who led the Administrations push for tax exemptions for colleges that racially discriminate. And it was Meese who has worked actively to enact the President's notorious directive of March 11, 1983, which seeks to create what is essentially a lifetime censorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring on the Veto | 2/8/1984 | See Source »

Jack boots sound in the streets, and fear is so palpable it can be tasted in the evening soup, but Anne spends a day wor rying about the pathological Dutch dislike of nudity. In The Sink of Iniquity she pro tests, "Modesty and prudishness can go too far. Do you put clothes on flowers when you pick them? I don't think we're so very different from nature. Why should we be ashamed of the way nature has dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Child Sacrifice | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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