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NOW more than ever, Americans may wonder exactly what Richard Nixon stands for. He won a unique victory because of his demonstrated political skills and the weakness of his opponent. But he said little in the course of the campaign to give anyone an idea of what to expect in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Richard Nixon: An American Disraeli? | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Human weakness is not quite so charming in The Temptation of St. Anthony. Living an ordinary life in an apartment with beige carpeting, the saint becomes the object of neighborly speculation aimed at bringing him down to the level of fallibility. The reason is simple: "If you decided that St...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Product | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Physically, the Combine continues to regulate the present. Even when McMurphy taken his friends out on a fishing trip, the exhilarating freedom is more than most of them can cope with anymore, andthe "wires" of authority and their own weakness pull them back to the asylum. The fishing trip is...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

McGovern will now return to the Senate, at least until his term expires in 1974. And he has indicated that he would like to stay longer. "McGovern's rigidity," concludes Fischer, "his sense of moral conviction, was at once a strength and a weakness. It is a strength that will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Long Journey to Disaster | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

Not entirely bad for Britain, the pound's fall has helped to compensate for the rise in British export prices in the past year. But, as speculators rushed out of the pound and into stronger currencies, the pound's weakness threatened to unsettle the whole network of currency-exchange rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: The Phase I Chill in Britain | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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