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Zappa the elder statesman of gross-out rock describes Zappa the group as very young and very cute: "Fifty per cent of the music we play is real cute...

Author: By Rich Weisman, | Title: Oh, Frankie...! | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...poet and statesman as well as a politician and educator. He transformed China from a prostrate and humiliated country into a strong and self-sufficient nation. His revolutionary government altered the balance of power in Asia and the strategic thinking of the world. His teachings transformed the Chinese, long known to be loose as sand as a nation, into a unified, well-disciplined people devoted to building a strong country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 11, 1976 | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts," Paul Johnson writes. Johnson is an Orwellian socialist deeply concerned for liberty, a dyspeptically progressive Roman Catholic, former editor of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, and a believer with a passion for accuracy. He has written a literary rarity, a highly readable, deeply learned, thoroughly fascinating account of 2,000 years of Christian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Help in Ages Past | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...been the candidates' personalities rather than any one issue. In 1960, John F. Kennedy's enumerated positions differed only slightly from Richard Nixon's. However, Kennedy's public image was that of a young, dynamic, progressive leader while Nixon's campaign persona more closely resembled that of an elder statesman. Similarly, in 1968 the "New Nixon" beat Hubert Humphrey, whose tenure as Lyndon Johnson's vice-president had so eroded his liberal credentials that many of his former supporters rejected him as a hypocrite or a fool...

Author: By Andy Karron, | Title: The Issues Issue | 10/6/1976 | See Source »

NELSON ROCKEFELLER, 68, at last appears reconciled to the only logical role open to him: elder statesman. He will campaign vigorously for Ford in northeastern industrial states, and elsewhere if asked. Should Ford win, Rocky is a long-shot possibility for Secretary of State; but he no longer savors the political infighting that is part of any Cabinet job. He would prefer to be a part-time adviser on issues that still absorb him-for example, energy and international economic development. His personally funded Commission on Critical Choices is being phased out, but he could create some other forum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNERS & LOSERS: Some Soared, Some Sank | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

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