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The first mariner who kept a record of actually landing there was yet another Briton, John Strong, who arrived in 1690 and artfully named the place after the First Lord of the Admiralty, Viscount Falkland, who never came near the islands. Strong was gratified at the friendly reception by what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Place Fit for Buccaneers | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

Nims offers himself as an old-fashioned lover of forms, both female and poetic. He bows gracefully to ottava rima, the sonnet and ballad. "Verse without rhyming was a toothless mouth," he insists at one point; elsewhere, he disguises his own bite with barely detectable assonances like "hankering" and "merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Voices and Harmonies | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Until now. If it is chic to be pregnant, it is not necessarily chic to look like a helium-inflated polyester balloon. It is no longer necessary, either. Fashion, like Big Business generally, has had to make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Stepping Out with My Baby | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: A Legacy of Dreams and Guns | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Waldheim bows out-for now

Author: /time Magazine | Title: United Nations: Kurt Reply | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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