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...lots of time for talking at the airport, and at a lull in the conversation one of our hosts said, the way you might ask a stranger how did he like President Ford, "In your opinion, what is the main motive force in history?" My impression was that it served the same function as a question about Ford might--to see if we were on the same side, as it were. The only other time someone seemed to be asking a question for that reason was when a schoolteacher asked about the Vietnam war: I guess students tend...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: The Cultural Revolution Generation | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

...hardly dead in the Titanic disaster, and ne'er-do-well Son James is planning to marry his father's typist. Upstairs is distraught; downstairs, aghast. Pale green eyes narrowing in her pretty vixen's mask, head Houseparlormaid Rose Buck voices the general anxiety: "A stranger has been in my linen closet. I don't know if I'm still wanted here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Everything's Coming Up Rose | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...thorny hills A sheepless shepherd-chased I saw you on the ruins and once You were a green orchard I stood a stranger Knocking at your door The doors, the windows, the cemented stone Vibrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Palestinian Songs of Liberation | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

...even remember that his visitor Squatriglia owes him a favor. But this conception of fragmented personality does not grip Chee Chee as the great and terrible existential dilemma that it may seem. We should become suspicious of this when we realize that here he opens his soul to a stranger, one who is bewildered by his philosophical speculation...

Author: By Stephen Tifft, | Title: Pirandellian Calisthenics | 10/24/1974 | See Source »

...work and thus has a lot of time on his hands, is always willing to explain anything from the sex life of the squirrel to the nature of the universe. Mom spends most of her time shelling peas and chatting it up across every imaginable communications gap. The stranger at their door, though generally troubled, is rarely dangerous; his problems are readily soluble through immersion in the pot of tolerance, good will and homely wisdom always asimmering on the back burner of the old wood stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoints: Life on the Prairies | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

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