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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Stannard says, "you work hard and do the best with what you've got," or is it a place where, as Rivers says, "Vermonters take care of Vermonters"? It will be years before the people of Vermont sort out whether the benefits of Act 60 were worth all the turmoil. But John Irving, for one, is not waiting around to find out. He's starting up his own private school--and stealing the principal away from the private academy where state senator Shumlin sends his kids. "My response is as brutally upper class as I can make it," says Irving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revolt Of The Gentry | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

...middle class and theatrical. Had to be, or he would have been no more than a momentary phenomenon. Kazan found in the man-boy he made into a star "a soft, yearning, girlish side...and a dissatisfaction that can be dangerous." There's "a hell of a lot of turmoil there," he said. "He's uncertain about himself and he's passionate, both at the same time." The performances that defined Brando's screen character, and that somehow articulated the postwar generation's previously inarticulate disgust with American blandness and dishonesty, its struggles to speak its truest feelings, are powered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Actor MARLON BRANDO | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

...muddled, unchastened world, still fed romantically on the mistakes and half-forgotten dreams of dead statesmen and poets. Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights, destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success, grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faith in humanity shaken...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: From My Desk Drawer | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...resident of Winthrop House, Vagts wrote his senior thesis about another time of turmoil, the French Revolution...

Author: By Sadie H. Sanchez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: International Law Professor Vagts Spends a Lifetime at Harvard | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...necessarily count on the long-term backing of the powerful military. Economists and stock analysts around Asia question Habibie's ability to bring sensible change to Indonesia's choking economy--his big-spending statist policies are anathema to the International Monetary Fund--and politicians forecast continuing turmoil as secular and religious groups compete for influence now that Suharto's strong restraining hand has been lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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