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...When the trauma has passed, it could bring people to a common cause...
...nation, TIME correspondents explored attitudes about possible presidential involvement and what should be done if Nixon is indeed culpable. They found that there is indeed a dominant feeling that the President was involved in one way or another. Yet there is also a deep fear of the national trauma that long and messy impeachment proceedings would probably cause...
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life...
...movie, of course, ignores all this. And in doing so, it obfuscates the radical lesson of the seventies: that the women's problem is rooted in the most profound structures of the social order. The movie appeases the national trauma about women with a sophisticated sleight-of-hand. Not only does it couch its message in 19th century terms, but it refuses even to define Nora in relation to them. It thus disguises the problem and allays it by spreading a veneer of euphoria over it. The ending of the movie is an affirmation of individual female liberation that denies...
...question of whether President Nixon should or would quit the White House. Just weeks ago, when Nixon was organizing his "new American revolution" after one of the greatest election victories in U.S. history, the question would have sounded preposterous. Even now, the prospect evoked such a sense of national trauma that most Americans of both parties devoutly wanted to avoid it. But so widespread was the doubt about Nixon's involvement in Watergate, so widespread the skepticism about the repeated White House denials, that a majority of Americans polled by TIME believed the President...