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There are those people in the world who object to against him and one cannon wholly blame them Agitation after all is unpleasant. It means that while you are going on peaceably and joyfully on your way some half-mud person insists upon saying things that you do not like...

Author: By Errol T. Louis, | Title: The Darker Side | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

Fellini is not overly sentimental or insistent on this point; he is mostly having too much fun with the giddy life of the voyage. Much of the amusement has to do with unfortunate encounters between the foolish passengers, who like to believe that they have transcended the instinctual life, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Voyage of the Damned Fools | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

All governments deal in euphemisms, of course, since the purpose of a euphemism is to make anything unpleasant seem less unpleasant. And since killing is the most unpleasant of government functions, the result is linguistic legerdemain.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Words That Ravage, Pillage, Spoil | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

Government does not involve only military affairs, to be sure. Every aspect of economic policy attracts similar expressions of right thinking. When Reagan was convinced that taxes had to be increased, after he had promised to cut them, he be gan referring not to taxes but to "revenue enhancements," a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Words That Ravage, Pillage, Spoil | 1/9/1984 | See Source »

While the world awaits its renaissance, there are choices to be made and, for the liberal internationalist, unpleasant ones. On the one hand is a Republican Party that obeys the minimal decencies of the welfare state, but is still alien to its ethic, still nibbling at the edges of civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: What Ever Became of the American Center | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

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