New Year's Mellow Mood

Rage over Rising Regulation
To autocratic bureaucrats, nothing succeeds like excess

Tax Plans
Carter wants cuts of $25 billion

Jimmy, Jerry, Zbig and Henry (The Presidency)
The Presidency/Hugh Sidey

Winds of Change (Americana)

Clearing the Air (Americana)

No Thanks, Tovarishchi (Americana)

Bank Rolls (Americana)

Love Story (Americana)


A New/Old Flu (Medicine)
A-l reappears in Siberia

Land of the Fat (Medicine)
America's weight woes grow

Time to Be Bullish on Britain? (Economy & Business)
North Sea revenues could pull the economy through—if...

Steel Seeks More Money, Quick (Economy & Business)
But price boosts could help imports

Advertising: the Best One-Liners (Economy & Business)
Soft sell makes hard cash

End of the Great Engine Flap (Economy & Business)
$200 for each "Chevymobile " owner

OPEC: No Boost till June (Energy)
World oil surplus and Saudis keep the lid on


The Humanist
Yale reaches for an Old Blue


A Sensuous, New Tannh (Music)
Snuggling up to Venus and paying for it

The Year's Best (Music)

Boredom's Brimstone (Theater)

The Year's Best (Theater)

Exit the Tramp, Smiling (Cinema)

Between Olympus and Golgotha (Art)
Early Christian art reflects struggle of the old gods with the new

Helping Britain Buy British (Art)
With a U.S. assist, the Tate raises enough to save two Stubbs

Ten Most (Show Business)

Here'$ Johnny (Show Business)
And there's $13,123 an hour

Second Strike (Show Business)
Even Obi-Wan is amazed

Celebrity and Its Discontents (Books)

Excerpt (Books)

Into the Deep (Books)

The Year's Best (Books)


Anwar Sadat: Architect of a New Mideast (Man Of The Year)
With one stunning stroke he designed a daring approach to peac

Begin: Partner for Peace (Man Of The Year)

The Gift of the River Nile (Man Of The Year)
Arab by definition, its people have a history that makes them proud

Actor with a Will of Iron (Man Of The Year)

Reflections from Cell 54 (Man Of The Year)
The power of "inward success " and the politics of freedom

Anatomy of a "Bold Action" (Man Of The Year)

Four Crises: A Wife's View (Man Of The Year)

They Are Fated to Succeed (Man Of The Year)
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously "


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The State of the Language, 1977 (Time Essay)