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...Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart and Haydn. He kept a handwritten copy of the Book of Revelation in his boot, and that became his freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom First | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...large body, clad in bullet belt and spiky hair came flying over my head. I ducked, but too late. A heavy black boot thudded into my avaitor metal-rim glasses, implanting an outline of the frames into my face and sending the glasses to an ignominious end beneath hundreds of other jackboots...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Remembering Their Harvard Experience | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

...like boot camp," said Robert J. Flynn'61. "They hand you a schedule, six t-shirts andsix pairs of underwear...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Class of '61 Storms City, Reunion Classes Arriving | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

...first it sounds like boot camp. "I'm tough on you because I want you to be tough and take anything I sling at you all year," snaps Instructor Ronald Marr to a group of ten young men and women. Then he softens, but not much: "My goal is to teach you how to learn, so that when you leave this classroom and this program, you can survive on your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Timers Need Not Apply | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...aspect of the Bush fiasco is that it is a rare instance of definite political payback. That is, Bush did something clearly egregious--put a big $250 cowboy boot right in the old mouth--in calling for price controls, and the voters in the rest of non-Texas America, still a sizable majority, will be quick to pay him back for his short-sighted comments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unpleasant Unction | 4/19/1986 | See Source »

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