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Let the applause swell for past dramas: Ike before worshipful masses in Seoul; Kennedy firm-jawed at the Berlin Wall; L.B.J. staring down Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro; Nixon clinking glasses in the Great Hall with Chou Enlai, then eating Wheaties in the Kremlin; Ford grinning beneath his fur hat in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: More Summits? Think Mailgram | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

So far, the Bicentennial's art exhibitions have tended to be worthy but familiar: they offer much detail but tell us little that is new. However, a show of a different kind opened last week at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. It contains no works of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arcadian Vision | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

But neither he nor the majority of the faculty really understood the enotional part of the critique. Among some professors there was a great wagging of jowls about the "barbarians'" disregard for scientific inquiry and decency, but the strikers retorted that these worthy considerations had long ago become nostrums having...

Author: By James A. Sleeper, | Title: Why They Leave | 12/9/1975 | See Source »

"WM. S. CARROLL # 512" was waiting at the curb while the rush-hour traffic crept forward in the darkness at the foot of the John Hancock Building. The press bus was on time, if I wasn't, and its fog-covered windows held forth some hope of reportorial warmth inside...

Author: By Robert T. Garrett, | Title: Blue Skies Over Georgia | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Intellectually, too, not much is there. Hougan knows about America and Europe in the sixties, and he knows some odd bits of philosophy. He has no grasp at all of American history, which accounts for the overwhelmingly present-oriented tone of Decadence. Now, Hougan is saying, is the time of...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Decline and Fall | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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