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The unease about Haig's de parture centered on the fact that the most knowledgeable and experienced foreign policy hand in an Administration not noted for diplomatic expertise had quit at a moment when the U.S. was trying to cope with a host of challenging global troubles. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shakeup at State | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

On the dollar bill, the American eagle is represented clutching an olive branch in one talon, a sheaf of arrows in the other. Ronald Reagan has been trying to present a somewhat similar image of his policy toward the Soviet Union: a string of arms-control proposals coupled with unyielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Mr. Nice Guy | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

It would be difficult to overpraise the one-man magnetic field that is Mokae's Sam, or the audacious emotional tightrope walking that Price does with Hally, or the unyielding, unquestioning goodness that Glover puts into Willie. A taut grace governs all under Fugard's flawless direction. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dance Marathon | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

You portray Paul Volcker as firm, dedicated, unyielding and irrevocably committed to a policy of tight money, regardless of the difficulties and hardships that are imposed on a large segment of our population. Volcker's approach can also be called intransigent and obstinate, which are synonymous with fanatic. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1982 | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

"The Man in the Water" and the story of Convict-Celebrity Jack Henry Abbott portray the astonishing range of human character under stress. The man in the Potomac responded to unyielding nature with transcendent heroism. Abbott is accused of reacting to an indifferent society with random viciousness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 15, 1982 | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

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