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Americans have always had a certain Manichaean attitude toward other nations-and indeed toward life itself. There was light and darkness, good and evil, success or failure-and no other choices, even within ourselves. The whole trend of American history and character has made us believe that an individual can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Morning After the Fourth: Have We Kept Our Promise? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

The city helps support a highly ambitious and costly university system. With 266,000 students, City University of New York is now larger than 43 state universities. Yet most students receive a free education as compared with the several hundred dollars in tuition charged by almost all state universities. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: How New York City Lurched to the Brink | 6/16/1975 | See Source »

It is very human to want to repress the ugly and the painful. But it is also very dangerous. Repression is psychological anesthesia, and like real anesthesia it becomes dangerous when the drugged patient exerts himself--feeling no pain, seeing no evidence of death, he is unaware of and unprepared...

Author: By Wendy B. Jackson, | Title: The Victims of Success | 6/11/1975 | See Source »

Noting that "people in this country who committed war crimes continue to enjoy respect," Falk says that the mainstream of "the American people are unprepared for allegations of criminality. "War crimes trials would be disruptive," he says, "since so many people are trying so hard to forget." He admits, though...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: War Crimes: Who's Sorry Now? | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

The Levy quints are doing well, and their parents seem to be adjusting to the startling increase in the size of their family. But many of the multiple births that result from the use of fertility drugs turn out to be mixed blessings at best. The infants are usually born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fertility Drugs: A Mixed Blessing | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

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