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High crime, alienated youth, epidemic narcissism and other social ills attest to the fact that it is better to maintain and slowly change our heritage than to pick through throwaways for useful remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1981 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Team members readily attest to the rapport that Hays has already established with the squad. Standout sophomore butterflyer Kathleen McCloskey characterized the new coach as "very outgoing. She can accomodate herself to the individual swimmer, which a lot of other coaches...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Stanford Swimmer Comes to Coach | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

...other hand, his allusions and allegories flow unceasingly, as anyone familiar with Getting Even, Without Feathers, or any of the movies can attest. For instance, Allen on Camus: "The night was windy and dark, and Cloquet had a split second to decide if he would risk his life to save a stranger. Unwilling to make such a momentous decision on an empty stomach, he went to a restaurant and dined." And a few sentences later, on Sartre: "A feeling of nausea swept over him as he contemplated the implications of his action. This was an existential nausea, caused...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: More Kugelmass | 10/3/1980 | See Source »

...tier is writing, his love is sport, and in combining the two he has become a professional Walter Mitty, as such books as Out of My League and Paper Lion attest. His role this time was not to play but to watch, to go to the Moscow Olympics as that rara avis, given the U.S. boycott, an American tourist at the Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Paper Tourist: A Yank in Moscow | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...more than simple curiosity can account for the greedy consumption of them. The traffic in intimacies may be a naive, if elaborate, response to the generalized loneliness and isolation that are characteristic of the times: it may represent a form of sharing, though a desperate form. Many psychologists attest that lonely people have an extra-special wish to know what other lives are like, and that those who disclose their inner lives basically crave acceptance. Public confession has increased, says University of Chicago Theologian Martin Marty, as the popular sense of God has diminished. Says Marty: "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Bull Market in Personal Secrets | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

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