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...four-footed over the four-wheeled ("A horse is at least human, for God's sake")-well, that has become a contagion by now. As has that yearning for Thoreauesque communal living in New England: "We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out . . . We could live somewhere with a brook and all and ... I could chop all our own wood in the wintertime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Holden Today: Still in the Rye | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...furnaces of Pittsburgh are cold; the assembly lines of Detroit are still. In Los Angeles, a few gaunt survivors of a plague desperately till freeway center strips, backyards and outlying fields, hoping to raise a subsistence crop. London's offices are dark, its docks deserted. In the farm lands of the Ukraine, abandoned tractors litter the fields: there is no fuel for them. The waters of the Rhine, Nile and Yellow rivers reek with pollutants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Worst Is Yet to Be? | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

Sanford & Son (NBC) is a promising situation comedy produced by Bud Yorkin and Norman Lear, the team that created All in the Family. Like Family, which was based on a long-running BBC hit called Till Death Do Us Part, the new show is also an adaptation of an English model. This time Yorkin and Lear have taken the BBC's Steptoe & Son, about the tribulations of a cockney junk dealer and his son, and Americanized it by setting it in a low-income black milieu. In the process they have come up with an inspired piece of casting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Redeemers | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

WHAT'S GOIN' ON (Tamla). A melodically deft song cycle by soul crooner Marvin Gaye that praises God, blesses peace and swings till kingdom come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 1971's Best LPs | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

Read about him till the shelves are empty, Richard will still be an enigma. Farrington to the contrary, many authorities agree that Richard was not astute; he was principled, even moralistic. Raised in the wilds of Yorkshire, he was a deep-country conservative, almost religiously loyal to his liege - even, it appears, to his wife. But in an age of scurrying change, the old pieties were giving way before the impact of the new humanism, nationalism, and the rising power of the middle class. A study of Richard's legislation suggests strongly that in the course of his brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reconstituting Richard | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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