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...leaves are frazzled and fraying now, the hues of mid-fall gone. But a trace of the brilliance remains, enough to stir the stomach. New Hampshire retains its quaint mystique, the facade that the media and the politicos penetrate in February of every leap year. Something intangible, but pervasive, emanates from this state of towns carved from foothills. It draws the curious observer, and so eight months after the primary, the search begins anew...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Existentialism in Granite | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention showed again, Reagan can stir emotions. While much of his earlier reputation for rousing performances was built as he dazzled conservative audiences with those zinging one-liners they loved to hear, he at least offers greater hope that, when the nation needed to be aroused, there would be a President who could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Future Begins on Nov. 4 | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...controversy has died down since the fireworks three years ago. But Hobson and McCarley plan to take part in a debate next spring in New Orleans that Hobson says he hopes will stir up the controversy. "This type of thing is good for psychiatry," he says. When people refuse to revise their ideas, Hobson says, "psychiatry is in trouble...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Sweet Dreams | 10/31/1980 | See Source »

...outset of the congress, when the 29 members of the Communist Party Presidium took their seats on the stage of Pyongyang's Cultural Palace, the purpose of the conclave was clear. When Kim Jong II was introduced to the 3,230 party delegates, there was a perceptible stir in the hall: the young Kim was accorded no less than fifth place in party precedence. The congress, in fact, did better. Before it adjourned last week, it confirmed Kim Jong II as No. 4 in the Politburo Standing Committee, No. 3 in the sensitive Military Affairs Committee and-most significant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH KOREA: Kim's Dynasty | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...president must be willing to go out and stir up the waves of political passion, with which to roll over his opponents and the bureaucracy in Washington," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Aide Ellsworth Suggests Increases in Military Spending | 10/23/1980 | See Source »

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