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Sir: Your method of healing the nation is a little like seeking a Band-Aid for a case of tuberculosis. Why not step even farther back for perspective and work on the virus of our disease-that 73% of Americans live on 1% of the land? A system of tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

Whether "art" or not, the show is marvelously evocative and dramatically presented. The first galleries, filled with old pictures and resounding to taped melodies of spirituals and ragtime, depict Harlem as it was in the early years of the century: a prosperous white neighborhood. By 1905, Negroes from the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Harlem Experiment | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Humiliating Postures. It was on a day like any other on the Long Island: the trains were unheated, overcrowded and late. While riding home at night, the four decided that their patience had run out. When the conductor came around, they informed him that they would show him their tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arrests: Ticket Trouble | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Eleven Languages. Despite its excesses, Powell's campaign does make one legitimate point. Today's overcrowded, economically laggard Britain can no longer afford to make good on the old colonial "myth that we wrote into law" and grant entrance to every Commonwealth emigrant who seeks to settle there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Phenomenon of Powellism | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

At every station, sixty people from your overcrowded car elbow their way off, and another seventy push in from the station to get on. Towards the end of the trip, as your back begins to stick to the disintegrating leather of the old upright seats, the sunrise lights up the...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Malcolm Lowry, 11 Years Dead, Is Pawing Through the Ashes of His One Great Work | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

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