Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME'S three Americans abroad represent a special blend of journalistic talent and experience, and they treated their subject with enthusiasm and affection. As caught by Demarest's pen and Mydan's camera, todays China comes alive in rare and memorable fashion...
BRITAIN. Though unearned income is taxed at Shylockian rates of up to 98%, capital gains were not taxed at all in Britain until 1962. Now almost all profits from the sale of personal goods, property or stock are subject to a levy of 30%. Among the few exemptions from taxation are profits from the sale of a principal residence, automobiles and personal possessions sold for less than...
After much fingering, it is courteously returned to Subject Ma. After this a quintet of F.F.s take a stroll through Wusih's back streets. They are immediately surrounded by laughing, chattering locals, many descending from homeward-bound bicycles. "Ni hao! Ni hao!" (How do you do?) Congeniality on such a scale can be slightly frightening, but it is authentic and spontaneous. Back in the hermetic bus on the way to the railroad station, Richard Lloyd Jones, president of the Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune, mops his brow and remarks: "This is how F.D.R. must have felt riding down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...residents of Brno promote Janacek's work as hard as they play down his life-a chronicle so scandalous that, after 50 years, Brno still blushes and changes the subject when anyone mentions it. A choir director, conductor and organ teacher, Janacek at age 27 married one of his students, 16-year-old Zdenka Schulz, and lived unhappily ever after. Despite two children, Janacek humiliated his wife with his spectacular philandering. In less amorous moments, he found time to compose three minor operas and The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, a light, satirical tale about a flight...
Psychiatrist George T. Harding Jr. was called in on the case, along with Cornelia B. Wilbur, the psychoanalyst who melded the 16 personalities of a patient known as Sybil, later the subject of a book and television play. With Wilbur's aid, Harding came to a startling conclusion: Milligan had fractured his psyche into ten "people," eight male and two female, ranging from Christene, a vulnerable three-year-old, to Arthur, 22, a rational, controlled planner who speaks with a British accent and tries to repair the damage done by the other personalities...