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...when football players use hair dryers in the locker room as he did when they wore crew cuts. "Thirty-five years makes a long time," he reflects. "A lot of good, a lot of bad, some things you did that were smart, some things you did that were plain stupid. Thirty-five years makes a lot of changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football's Supercoach | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...amazing that the butts of all those stupid Polish jokes could make the whole world hold its breath? Some would have said that the Poles possessed suicidal courage and had no hope of succeeding. But they have succeeded by proving to men and women everywhere that no force on earth or in hell can take away a man's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1980 | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...lumbers through history toward the light, its honored cargo has always been a rather dense abstraction called "the proletariat." But Karl Marx never lavished much bourgeois sentimentality on the proletariat in person, on real workers as individuals. In their private correspondence, Marx and Engels even referred to them as "stupid asses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: What Workers Get out of Communism | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

...selfdestruct. A few hurried journalistic reassessments of Reagan came out of Detroit. Typical was a column from Meg Greenfield, the Washington Post's editorial-page editor. Having finally seen Reagan up close, Greenfield had some advice for Carter: forget trying to paint Reagan as a nuke-waving, overaged, stupid and dangerous man to an American public that had seen him aw-shucksing his way coolly out of difficult spots. Greenfield still has big doubts about Reagan, but added: "Wrong is different from Dumb. And so is Unfamiliar or Inexperienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: The Year of the Pragmatists | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

Freshman Week will pass by and you'll meet some people you'll never meet again but will nod at or whisper "hi" to as you walk down Linden St. You'll probably do something stupid--like ask somebody where a building is while you're standing in front of it--but it will all seem wondrously ordered. At opening ceremonies, President Bok will rise from his Harvard chair and give his welcome-to-Harvard speech in a voice that sounds like Zeus; he'll talk about the challenges you face but his message will be upbeat. President Horner will...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Business of Harvard | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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