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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pines is also an expert on one other vital aspect of the entire Arab-Israeli confrontation: U.S. capabilities and what role they might play in the area. "In terms of U.S. defense priorities, no other region in the world, save for Western Europe, is as important," contends Pines. "It is now almost impossible for a journalist without a defense perspective to analyze events in the Middle East, especially after this settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 26, 1979 | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...elaborate Fail-Safe system that makes its peaceful use feasible. Now, however, his superiors push him a little too hard to get the disabled plant back on line faster than he thinks it should be. He also discovers that the contractors who built the plant have falsified vital safety certificates. But even as he's getting on to them, they're getting on to him−no way anyone's going to let fraudulent radiograms be introduced at a certification hearing for their newest nuclear installation. Attempted murder, Lemmon's singlehanded seizure of the plant, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Art: An Atom-Powered Thriller | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...cousin of sorts. There are 6,000 Moutons, descendants of a Salvador and Jean Diogène Mouton, whose family tree is more like a woods. And, of course, there is the lazily rounded French patois that holds them all together (and which Rushton might have discussed as a vital ingredient of the culture, instead of relegating it to an appendix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jambalaya | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...violent conclusion, as at the start, Lottman's Camus is the projection of a cinematographer, made up of thou sands of irrelevant and vital images that constitute a film-but which are, after all, only flickering suggestions of the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strangeness of the Stranger | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...published is Optimism: The Biology of Hope, by Rutgers University Anthropologist Lionel Tiger; it explores the possible biological origins of the human sanguineness that underlies feelings of wellbeing, whatever they are called. New York Psychoanalyst Willard Gaylin has just weighed in with a study called Feelings: Our Vital Signs, which scrutinizes and tries to delineate all the familiar varieties of human feeling. Gaylin thus probes the character of a state that he calls not "happiness" but "feeling good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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