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It helps that the nation is asking these questions at a time of year when it is otherwise busy squinting up at tennis lobs, lolling in cocoa butter and perfecting curvature of the spine cocooned in hammocks. August is more a hiatus than a month, and the level of public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahhhhhh Wilderness! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Rouse is a stocky (5 ft. 11 in.), balding, bespectacled man who looks like ?and has been?an elder of the Presbyterian Church. On a recent late-morning tour of Harborplace, he was dressed like an avuncular preppie in a blue button-down shirt, a loud madras jacket and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: He Digs Downtown | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

In his third and best novel, Robert F. Jones tracks the elemental grandeur of Alaska from feral Eden to pipeline ruination. In 1950 Bush-Pilot Buddies Jack Slade and Sam Healey are forced to land their aging C-47 in the icy outback. Charlie Blue, a Tlingit Indian shaman, appears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: SLADE'S GLACIER | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

Mark J. Franklin, the protagonist of George MacDonald Eraser's new book, mines deep rewards on his arrival in London in 1909. A wealthy, enigmatic figure of taciturnity and gangling good looks, the Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yankee-Panky | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

For most Congressmen the recess visits ran into talk of virtually only one subject: the economy. After touring his suburban Los Angeles district, Republican Congressman David Dreier observed: "I have heard nothing about affirmative action, little about abortion, the ERA or gun control. Maybe when the economy settles down, these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stirring in the Grass Roots | 5/4/1981 | See Source »

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