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The President and others rail against permissiveness, and yet the courts increasingly permit all varieties of sexual behavior and expression. The falling birth rate and the proliferating variety of mating arrangements may signify a new enlightenment, or the end of the old morality, depending upon one's point of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 8, 1973 | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Beyond the congressional shadow, trade between the U.S. and Russia looks as if it will become a brisk, though hardly thriving business. Total purchases of both nations from each other, now running at a minuscule $200 million annually, are expected to triple over the next three years, with the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: The Deals Are Coming | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Tanner's employment of soft close-ups and "picturesque" imagery grates against sensibility. In trying to make social criticism, he forgets that he is working through human beings. If his point is to convince us, his people must be real. But his frames are as hackneyed and as fired as...

Author: By David R. Caploe, | Title: The Poverty of (Film) Philosophy | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

Instead he wanders from one expensive muscular pursuit to another, shooting rapids and doves, fishing wahoo and tarpon, doing each deed seriously and well with the finest equipment, at precisely the spot in the hemisphere where it is to be done best. No special portent is involved here; one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

(2 of 11) handed it to the referee. Afterward, he said, "I sealed a cruncher," and then went bowling. Spassky and his team of analysts, meanwhile, studied the position long and hard that night looking for a flaw in Fischer's assault. Next day, when Fischer was late in arriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

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