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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often nowadays it seems that man's dreams of Utopia have become nightmares of dirt and despair. The atmosphere stifles rather than sustains; water poisons rather than refreshes; machinery and appliances invented for service and comfort fail to function and sometimes even maim and kill. What has anyone done about it? Until fairly recently, not a great deal. This week TIME'S cover tells the story of Ralph Nader, one man who felt that something had to be done-and set out to do it himself. Nader has spearheaded many of the gains the U.S. consumer has recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...visibly as the drapings fell, to reveal her husband in his famous "bulldog" stance, with foot, chin, belly and vision forward. Permanently threatening another step, Churchill's bronze expresses, in the sculptor's words, "an idea of impatience and hurry, of a man wanting to see something done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 12, 1969 | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...trees but gifts and Santa Claus as well. In protest, outraged fathers marched around Coleman's home at night carrying Santa balloons, and 50 children picketed an emergency meeting of the school board. They carried signs reading SCROOGE IS ALIVE AND WELL IN MARBLEHEAD and SANTA HAS DONE NO WRONG-DONT SUSPEND HIM FROM SCHOOL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Christmas in the Classroom | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

Just how much damage had been done? As Bing and his aides desperately juggled logistics, it seemed considerable, but far less than had appeared likely during the gloomiest weeks of struggle. Most of the star singers are available, but fitting them into an impromptu schedule will be a computer-size job. The delay has ruled out four fancy new productions: Herbert von Karajan's long-awaited Siegfried, Orfeo ed Euridice, Weber's gloomily romantic Der Freischutz, and a Russian-language Boris Godunov. But the Met's first week will probably open with Aïda and Leontyne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Is Believing | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...succeeded Pollock renounced the dramatic mannerisms of the action painters, flattering the canvas further. No longer do you see the artist's hand. Lacking the tensions imposed by a portrayal of the artist's emotions on the canvas, these colorists remove the reference of the moment the painting was done. The work emerges with a new sense of timelessness...

Author: By Cyntiha Saltzman, | Title: At the Met New York Painting and Sculpture 1940-1970 at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art until February 1. | 12/11/1969 | See Source »

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