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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unending melotrauma of nightmares and broken ideals. Gray was the winsome lad, then the sturdy teen-ager of Father Knows Best; he navigated adolescence like a middle-class Huck Finn. O'Brien and Gray were natural, winning, resourceful actors who took both their craft and their function as role models seriously. Their like has not been seen since-and, sibling, do we need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Exit Smutcoms, Enter Sweetcoms | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Many modern historians assume that history flows glacially in a certain direction, and that it is their function to chart that flow, toward liberty, or capitalism, or the national state. Foucault claims, by contrast, that there are sharp breaks-"discontinuities," he calls them-separating one historical period from another. At each such break, the new age unconsciously creates a new intellectual framework for its view of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: France's Philosopher of Power | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Although the shuttle is now operating on a "minimum flight plan," National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials are "very optimistic" that a full mission can be accomplished, as long as the two remaining fuel cells continue to function at acceptable levels, Mack Herring, a NASA spokesman, said last night...

Author: By Gilbert Fuchsberg, COMPILED FROM WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Problems With Electricity Cell Might Curtail Shuttle Flight | 11/13/1981 | See Source »

...Does it all function to your satisfaction, keeping you briefed and current on everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Morning After | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

That discovery may aid the prevention of childhood blindness. And Wiesel says the idea of a "critical period" could perhaps apply to much more complicated brain function. "Deprivation of attention, emotion, what a mother provides for a child, emotional contact with siblings--there is evidence that kids lacking these things develop more slowly," he explains, adding, "Perhaps it is important to stimulate people to use their intellectual and emotional resources early...

Author: By Charles D. Bloche, | Title: Why They Won Nobel Prizes | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

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