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The broader the parody, the bigger the self. Wayne has been honing and buffing that self in some 250 pictures ?mostly westerns?for 40 years. He has become the essential American soul that D. H. Lawrence once characterized as "harsh, isolate, stoic and a killer." Superficially his films have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Wayne as the Last Hero | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

Dexedrine is a form of that big category of things known as "speed," and is part of an even greater gathering of "ups." However, the term "speed" is usually applied to those very large does of amphetamines that hippies and other tramps take for kicks. Taking drugs for kicks is...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Outline for the Coming Chemical Society, Or Dexedrine vs the Old Academic Process | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

AS HISTORIAN, he fits the current campus violence into a long tradition of anti-intellectual gangsterism. The students of medieval universities composed "an army of tramps, spongers, and hoodlums." What distinguishes the violence of the present generation is the relative calm that immediately preceded it and the laxity, or cowardice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decline of Learning | 2/11/1969 | See Source »

Budgie Bill is not one of your ordinary English tramps. Wearing a fawn-colored overcoat with wing collars and an ancient trilby that looks like "a burst concertina," he haunts villages in the daytime and cities at night. More startling, he always walks backward and, if he pauses in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rage Against God | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

The Grand Axis. "My life is architecture," says Owings. For him it means operating with a telephone grafted to his ear and a suitcase ever handy for a dash from California's Big Sur. Often he is on the road for weeks on end, racks up 20,000 air miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: To Cherish Rather than Destroy | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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