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Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Top, Barely | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

Those millions of Americans who suffer from chronic pain have cause to be thankful for Bonica's tenacity. He has helped make much of the medical profession aware of both the compassion and the specialized approach needed to deal with the agony of pain. Twenty-three years ago he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pain Relief's Founding Father | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

I met Germaine Greer [BEHAVIOR, April 16] more than a decade ago, in her lustier days, at a women's conference in Brussels. She talked about phallic architecture and admired the young bellhops. "You know," she said, "when there are dirty old women just as there are dirty old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

This may be an unfair characterization of our society's lack of compassion. It may be that televising executions will cause people to realize that capital punishment is a barbaric institution. Maybe, as a result of the public exposure, the outcry will be so great that the process will be...

Author: By Michael N. Gooen, | Title: Barbarism at Its Best | 5/10/1984 | See Source »

On national religious faith. How did America become the leading economic nation in the world? We have drawn tremendous power from two great forces, faith and freedom. America was founded by people who sought freedom to worship God and to trust Him to guide them in their daily lives with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deleted: 17 segments of Reagans speech in China | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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