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...them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons, big and little. Birds in the air include meadowlarks, a splash of yellow on their underparts, and vermilion flycatchers, and four or five different hawks, the Cooper's sparrow hawk and the red-tailed being the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

Onstage, half a dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar along, "Mah bluh svade shoos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grandchildren off the Revolution | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...vulgar America that saved England's neck in two world conflicts. England, for her part, has suffered a special kind of embitterment in the loss of world stature and of the control of her economic destiny. No matter. For the past 40 years (except for a momentary glower over Suez) we have remained each other's strongest and closest friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America and Britain: The Firm, Old Alliance | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...course, this all sounds extravagantly naive. Unfortunately, most proposed solutions to this problem sound naive, the sophisticated answers being either to take up arms or to give up entirely. Yet as of now no one is even talking; neither the Soviets, Americans, Israelis nor Arabs. Generals glower, missiles are rolled into place, and the silence in the world is like the bomb's own-thus proving that people have achieved no mastery over nature that their stupidity has not neutralized. The mind made the bomb, the mind denied it, and the mind can stop it cold. If that should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Looking Straight at the Bomb | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

...city will be bare then - not like now, when autumn continues to languish on the trees, and Lafayette Square is still bright yellow with chrysanthemums Come January the city will be humming again, and this present quiescence for gotten. Miserable normality will be restored, and the country will glower at it creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Place to Hate and Love | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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