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Frivolous, you say; self-indulgent too. Never mind, say I. People who sneer thus are merely afflicted with geography envy; they are wedded to the misconception that a glorious autumn must be followed by a dark and dreary winter. There are those, nurtured on another coast, who believe nothing great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Between the State | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Sure, it would be a quieter, tidier land if we all agreed on everything and, if those who didn't would shut up. But in the voice of the dissident, the oddball and the minority, however wrongheaded from one's own point of view, we should learn to hear the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Patriots Speak Their Minds | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

A. My interpretation could be totally wrongheaded, but it's what I honestly believe. And I have taken an incredible amount of flak for it. Nothing I've ever done has attracted as much hate mail as my testimony for 2 Live Crew.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Race Man Argues for a Broader Curriculum: HENRY LOUIS GATES JR. | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

While debates over college curriculum get the most attention, professors generally can resist or subvert the most wrongheaded changes and students generally have mature enough judgment to sort out the arguments. Elementary- and secondary-school curriculums reach a far broader segment at a far more / impressionable age, and political expediency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond The Melting Pot | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Gray wrecks it and then says the greatest financial debacle in the history of the world is Keating's fault. They are not just taking down guys like me. In Colorado Springs the Government owns practically all the property, as they do in Arizona. You think all of this is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview with CHARLES KEATING: Money Talks | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

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