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Kinflicks is also an abundantly entertaining progress through the unsettled 60s. Virginia Hull Babcock, 27, comes home to Tennessee to care for her ailing mother. The act is not exactly unselfish, since Ginny has nowhere else to go; her Vermont husband has just thrown her out for practicing sexual yoga with a Viet Nam War resister. The home-town setting reminds Ginny of the home movies-kinflicks, as she and her two brothers called them-that her parents lavished on the events of her childhood. She begins mentally unreeling the X-rated scenes the old folks never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blue Genes | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

Maybe with Springsteen, a new generation of rock and unselfish rock musicians will emerge. Perhaps they will be musicians who want to give audiences good music with emotion and skill, not flash and trash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 17, 1975 | 11/17/1975 | See Source »

...Essay, I am moved to a sense of challenge and hope. I believe our country is in a crisis, especially of the spirit. Many are weary, many are worried. Inside most of us there must lie a sense of justice and decency. While it is true that we need unselfish, inspired leadership, we must also look to ourselves as responsible agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 4, 1975 | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...with the cause that you lose your sensitivity to people." Nancy Riegle, who is divorced from Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle, acidly agrees, "The trouble is these guys think that what they're doing is so important they lose perspective. They think they're being unselfish worrying about the kids in Viet Nam and the poor in the ghettos, but that's a bunch of crap. All they want to do is see their name in print. It's all for their own aggrandizement. When it comes to being a daddy or a husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: The Relentless Ordeal of Political Wives | 10/7/1974 | See Source »

McInally obviously learned his lesson from a depressing sophomore year. Not only did he become what coach Joe Restic describes as a "real team member who plays in an unselfish manner," but he proved himself to be one of the finest Harvard football players ever to grace the gridiron. And his record proves...

Author: By Joy Horowitz, | Title: McInally Vies for All-American Status | 9/27/1974 | See Source »

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