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Compromising has other problems as well, especially as a political platform. For one, it seems a boring banner under which to rally, and Tsongas does little to shake that feeling. Argument and reason are not enough to sway most of us; we want something to believe in, and the very principles of moderation that have put us in our current fix seem hardly enough. The slow steady path of a barge is less attractive that the swooping of a sailboat; it is worth noting that both vessels eventually reach their destinations, and that barges when they sink go down much...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Both Sides Now | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

Consumer groups are now taking up the slack. The Massachusetts Women's Council on Obstetrical Practices attempts to sway parents with a novel approach. It shows pictures of a circumcision in progress while playing a record of the baby's screams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Son's Rite | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...months before the Normandy invasion, Patton remarked that "Ike wants to be President so badly you can taste it." If so, he did not tell his diary, in which he expressed the same indifference to political office that he professed in public. The only thing that could sway him, he said, was a call to duty. Yet Patton appears to have been right: he either knew Ike better than Ike knew himself, or Eisenhower, always careful, was not confiding his true emotions to pages that in some cases were dictated to his secretary. In either case, the seeming lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Huck Finn Face | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...showcase for two of the world's top choreographers. First came the New York City Ballet's Tchaikovsky gala, a ten-day tribute to the Russian composer that also honored the company's legendary George Balanchine, 77. Then London's Royal Ballet held sway at Lincoln Center for three weeks, offering several works by Balanchine's contemporary Sir Frederick Ashton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Glitter | 7/13/1981 | See Source »

...mourners were even more stupid. We felt like we had some undeniable sense of cool when it came to music. Repairing wheelchairs, we did nothing but listen to "Sticky Fingers" and sneer at the managers. They hated us, but we hated them, too. And we had "Bitch" and "Sway" and Bob Wier and Captain Trips. We thought Elvis was bullshit. We had Mick and Keef. They saved our skins...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: The King's Last Limousine | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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