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What 1984 bequeaths to 1988 is far more than the timeworn questions debated since 1960, when Richard Nixon described the central problem as How We Keep the Peace Without Surrender and John Kennedy proclaimed, "We must move again." What this campaign promises is the rearrangement of much of the old familiar political scenery and the way we see each other...
...muster reasonable arguments for officially differing with students. But by making unnecessary and irrelevant comments and taking stubborn stands on trivial matters such as listing minority events, the administration hinders attempts at what could otherwise become meaningful dialogue. The only alternative quickly becomes demonstrations, marches, rallies and other timeworn methods of student protest...
TIME sees the bishops' pastoral letter as "a classic example of the church's age-old effort to use moral idealism to change the realities of politics." However, the only practical solution to the nuclear threat is a moral solution. Nothing is more timeworn than the ancient ruse that morality and practicality are opposites. To deny the moral solution is to deny our common humanity on a small planet and to assure its destruction. Is that practical...
...real-life Bronx correspondent for the New York Post once reported the burning-down of his family home-"and rewrite got the facts wrong"). Alas, though the pay ($300 a week) is relatively generous, the Santa Fe Festival Theater can attract few middle-aged supporting actors. Thus timeworn newsroom veterans are played by men mostly in their 30s who appear to be in their 20s. That casting undoes a work as grubbily detailed as The Front Page...
...poor man has no ambition to play the palace, but his hunger for riches leads him on, only to prove that travel is narrowing and that no one can become truly rich until he looks into his hearth and soul. The back-in-your-own-backyard conclusion is timeworn, but the book's slow cadences and sprightly tones lend it the character of a legend that can never grow old because it was never young...