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...although the Kennedys were too close together to be called dynastic. The denouement of his dream was especially bitter for a man whose tough pride in name and faith in success amounted almost to hubris. For most of the decade of his sons' triumphs, he was paralyzed and speechless following a stroke the year after Jack's inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DEATH OF THE FOUNDER | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...dwells on Wolfe's eccentricities: abhorrence of physical activity (especially any prospect of having to leave his Manhattan brownstone on a case), relish for properly chilled beer (12 bottles a day), reliance on significant small gestures ( a tiny circle traced on a desk top with one finger indicates speechless fury). Wolfe's associates are brightly sketched, notably his slangy, hard-boiled legman Archie Goodwin, whose active role in and narration of Wolfe's Holmesian episodes ties them also to the U.S. tough-guy school of Hammett and Chandler. Even such quirks as Wolfe's penchant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The American Holmes | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...overall effect, however, was not the stimulation of fuller debate. The hecklers' chief accomplishment was generally to disrupt meetings and render the candidates momentarily speechless. Wallace alone found a use for the barrackers. He pointed to long-haired protesters as "anarchists," as exemplars of the breakdown of order and respect. When the hecklers booed, Wallace bowed and blew them kisses. "They got me a million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Jeering Section | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Hoping to get recession-wary shoppers to spend more, Schiller recently ordered a minimum 6% wage-increase guideline, calmed outraged employers by pointing out that productivity was rising at a 7% rate. Union leaders, conditioned to 4% and 5% wage pack ages, were speechless-but only for a while. Now they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: Recovery's Steward | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...unlike the 10:03, is low-key at first. Hundreds of theatregoers stream on to the sidewalks of Boylston Street, bleary-eyed and speechless. Soon they stop yawning long enough to engage each other in conversation. A bald, middle-aged man with spaghetti sauce stains on his wrinkled white shirt turns to his wife and says, "We spent $7.50 to see this thing, so we're going back inside, and we're going to stay until someone rapes the redhead...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Wind in the Sassafras Trees at the Colonial through Saturday | 9/23/1968 | See Source »

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