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THE MUSE just stared darkly into his glass of beer, And said, "No, no, there'd be no Christmas this year." "You see," the muse murmured, "Santa goes through the air, With the guidance of more than reindeer and prayer. He crosses the world above the ozone, But never does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Christmas Trek | 12/18/1981 | See Source »

Other board members are much less enthusiastic about gold's powers. Charles Schultze, chief economic adviser to President Carter, thinks that the metal's allure stems from a wishful notion that financial stability can be achieved in a "fixed mechanical way," rather than by "trusting human beings." The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doubts and Dissent | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

The film might have been made in the 1940s, when "regional" writers were charting new corners of the American subconscious and film makers like Frank Borzage and Clarence Brown were spring-cleaning old work clothes and folkways. If there is an intrusive touch of modernism, it comes from Shepard, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hold the Phone | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Ironically, it was the Europeans and in particular the Germans who were pressing two years ago for a TNF buildup. They thought the Carter Administration was prone to policy zigzags, and they were disconcerted by some Washington stances and statements that seemed a shade too trusting of the Soviets and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Shaky State of NATO | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

First the good news. Fully 85% of normal American teen-agers say they feel happy most of the time. Now the bad news. In fact, things have been going downhill since the early 1960s. Three Chicago-area researchers surveyed 1,331 adolescents, the majority in the Midwest, during the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Declining Teens | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

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