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...booze, women and illegitimate children somehow came off as charming, even in a resolutely Catholic nation. His vices certainly made him a man of the people, not the Establishment. Estrada himself characterized the People Power II revolution that overthrew him in January as the "text-messaging generation" against the "vacationless class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Room with No View | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...their emancipation, thinks Anne Lindbergh, modern women have become bonded in a wider enslavement. Women ("the great vacationless class") simply must take time alone if they are to regain this "timeless inner strength" which "we [have] been seduced into abandoning . . . for the temporal outer strength of man. " As she picks up shell after shell during her seaside musings, Author Lindbergh seems to hear in them the murmur of delicate truths-the double-sunrise suggests the early stage of marriage; the oyster, with small shells clinging to its back, symbolizes the middle years of marriage, children, the home; the moon shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmuring Shells | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...busting corps-one comparable with SEC's 1,200 or Civil Aeronautics Authority's 2,800. He now has a staff of 65. Said he: "You can't police a country as large as America with a corporal's guard." Meanwhile, as such outbursts spurred vacationless lawyers ransacking files for anything that the Congressional Monopoly Investigation committee might conceivably regard as incriminating evidence, the dogged Federal Trade Commission continued unheralded its 24-year-old pursuit of anti-trust law violators and unfair trade practicers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Routine Vigilance | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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