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...since they wrote the Constitution." Nor did it fit Richard Nixon's own advance billing as "the most comprehensive, the most far reaching, the most bold program in the domestic field ever presented to an American Congress." The President's State of the Union message was an uneven mixture. It centered on a truly radical plan to reverse the history of decades by reversing some of the flow of governmental money and power-by turning it back from Washington toward the states. It also included old proposals newly adorned and a drastic reshuffling of Cabinet departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Nixon Revolution: Promise and Performance | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...relatively thin. But during differentiation, the tug of terrestrial gravity would probably have pulled more dense material to the side of the moon facing the earth. As a result the crust there would have been slightly squeezed and become thinner than that on the far side. Indeed, such an uneven distribution of crust was offered by University of Chicago Mineralogist Joseph Smith to explain the paucity of maria on the far side. These great lunar seas are believed to be vast upwellings of lava, perhaps from volcanic eruptions set off by the moon's collision with large asteroids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Changing the Lunar Image | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...people, who indicate need for only 400 units of public housing. Because communities are more willing to accept housing for elderly people than for families, many more buildings for the over-65's are finding neighborhood support. And since housing decisions are ad hoc, the overall balance may remain uneven, though the problems will (if all this building takes place) be different...

Author: By Katharine L. Day, | Title: The Cambridge Housing Shortage, or, Why Has My Rent Doubled In the Past Six Years? | 1/22/1971 | See Source »

...words recur throughout her poems- Staub, Wiiste, Adern, Mond, abgerissen, Tod- dust, desert, veins, moon, death, torn apart. Each word is used to create a similar mood, to conjure up images of the horrors which the nation of Israel has seen. The quality of her poetry is wildly uneven, some of it as sublime as Rilke, some of it unsuccessful for its excessive simplicity...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Poetry The Seeker | 1/8/1971 | See Source »

Bing was a gifted fund raiser, but not much of a collective bargainer; still his act will be tough to follow. Although criticized for his arrogance and for the woefully uneven quality of Met productions, he undeniably brought the company back from the edge of artistic bankruptcy and vanishing prestige to which it had fallen under the regime of the late Edward Johnson. By the time Bing quits, he will have lasted 22 seasons−longer than any other general manager except Giulio Gatti-Casazza (1908-35). But if charm counts for anything, and it certainly does among the matrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Manager for the Met | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

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