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...period tagged a decade of greed, which followed a "me generation" and a so-called age of permissiveness, the return of concern is encouraging. And, 25 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed, and 20 years after such politics culminated in students taking over University Hall, the tumult was refreshing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Working for Inclusion | 6/8/1989 | See Source »

...tumult in China can be used by both sides in the debate taking place in the Soviet Union. Reformers can draw the lesson that perestroika must be accompanied by glasnost and demokratizatsiya or sooner or later the people will take to the streets. The conservatives can argue that glasnost and demokratizatsiya unleash anarchy and are a threat to the powers that be, notably including the General Secretary of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China and the Soviet Union: Fighting The Founders | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...audience of older women and told her that old "broads" and "gals" didn't want to see pictures of themselves. They smugly reiterated the Madison Avenue maxim: Youth is beauty. "The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality," explains Lear, who despite the tumult plowed ahead and chose to remain a solo financial player to ensure her control of the enterprise. Kevin Buckley, the first editor during the bruising start-up, nonetheless credits Lear "as the first to see that most magazines neglected or talked down to millions of Americans. The success was inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCES LEAR: A Maturing Woman Unleashed | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...Pusey does not feel sorry for himself, he feels sorry for the way the world has changed in the years following the tumult of 1969--a year which marks in his memory the point when the nation and the University he loved succumbed to the pressures of a harsher, more violent...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: 'And Don't Think Young People Can't Be Evil' | 4/7/1989 | See Source »

Friends and observers agree that her husband's presidential defeat was an emotionally crushing blow to Kitty. An energetic and ambitious woman, she had thrived on the demanding schedule, tumult and attention of the campaign. Sandy Bakalar, a close friend, says, "Kitty was going 1,000 miles a minute. Then on Nov. 8 it was suddenly over. It was a terrible loss." Her husband, meanwhile, handled the loss in his usual stoic fashion. "Kitty had to do the mourning for both of them," says Richard Gaines, editor of the Boston Phoenix, who has long reported on the Dukakis family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Struggle of Kitty Dukakis | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

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