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...outside observer who is caught in his own trap?the habit of stereotyped thinking???migrants are immobilized by their despair. In fact, as Coles repeatedly demonstrates, most of them never give up ar,d so could respond to help if only it were offered. "There's no point to feeling sorry for yourself, or else you want to go and die by the side of the road," one migrant woman told Coles. "Some day that will happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Breaking the American Stereotypes | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...Nixon Administration could prod Americans into looking anew at crime by asking that federal law be brought into line with sociological and psychological thinking???not to mention the facts of life. It should also research better ways of handling such problems as drunkenness and drug addiction. Marijuana laws, in the eyes of many young people the worst example of hypocrisy and repression, should be reexamined, with more research provided on marijuana's long-term effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What the Government can do | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...poor politician in closed compartments and permitting no commerce between them. William B. Hesseltine has met it, in his exhaustive, 480-page study, by placing all emphasis on Grant's political career. The result is an eminently readable book which clearly describes the character of Grant's political thinking??? or of his political thoughtlessness?without quite accounting for either his occasional shrewd successes or his awe-inspiring failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poor Politician | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...have not lived. . . . I've worked . . . talked a lot . . . loved . . . hated . . . laughed a good deal . . . built some houses . . . brought up my children . . . thought a little . . . and?" The Angel of Death interrupted, "That was Life." Thus Mr. Woodward prepared for his story: After a successful career as a vender of thinking???wholesale and retail?Michael Webb (friend of readers of Bunk) establishes himself at Echo Hill Inn in Connecticut. In this labyrinthine tavern with steps up, steps down from room to room, with a billiard room that is half of the kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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