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...process now under way succeeds???as is likely, even with occasional disappointments?Americans of every persuasion and party will have reason to be proud. We contributed a military balance which foreclosed a military solution. Our nation, because it was trusted by both sides, helped shape a negotiating process which culminated in the breakthrough of Sadat's historic journey. President Carter has handled the sequence of events growing out of the Sadat initiative with wisdom and delicacy, offering assistance but not intruding on the process of negotiations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: They Are Fated to Succeed | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...novel out of a theme as spectacularly unappealing as that of Local Anaesthetic. It is a measure of his honesty that he persists in giving the young the one answer they do not want to hear: "There is no answer." It is a measure of his abilities that he succeeds???touchingly, amusingly, agonizingly. Since Local Anaesthetic came out in Germany, Grass is often confronted by bitter high school and college students. "You only criticize," they complain, "you only show us how things are. Why don't you show us the way?" "I'm not a prophet," he growls in response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dentist's Chair as an Allegory in Life | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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