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...greeting-card industry has unhesitatingly responded to this avalanche of social change. One way has been to try to restore order, to look back on simpler times when people got married, stayed married, bought houses, had kids and did not question who was playing what role. (It was never really that pat, of course, but the idea that it was still sells like crazy at Christmas.) The counters are dominated this year as every year by sentimental, traditional themes: Nativity scenes (though cards have been getting increasingly secular), churches, children, sleigh riders...
...Life is simpler for Karajan now. He is a proud and private family man. Leaving the stage after every tumultuous Carnegie ovation, he looked up to the box where his third wife Eliette and their daughters Isabel, 16, and Arabel, 12, stood in rapt admiration...
...labors make life a lot easier for the menfolk. Women's lib notwithstanding, the U.S. has not approached this state of affairs-which male chauvinists may or may not applaud-but the fact is that women are surging into America's labor force, increasingly doing what in simpler times was called men's work. In the process they are drastically altering the whole U.S. job situation and changing the terms of the debate over unemployment...
American voters have come to expect simpler images-and simpler answers-from their politicians than Carter provides. A candidate who tries to appeal to Playboy readers on one hand (see following story) and to evangelicals on the other, who promises tax reform but says he does not know enough yet to provide details, who talks both to God and Rock Superstar Gregg Allman, violates all the unwritten political norms. By appealing to such differing constituencies, he has magnified the uncertainties about his character and positions. Those doubts could cost him an election that seemed to be his for the taking...
...much credence as a year-old Samoa, you know, the kind that comes in five tropical colors. Agnew's been spouting off for two reasons, probably; he wants to sell his book and he wants business deals with the Arabs. [MORE]'s motives for running the article are simpler, one suspects--they just couldn't resist the headline "Jews in the News...