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...right job, but the wrong time."--Farmer Arizona Gov. Brace Babbit's response when Hole Champion, the chair of the Kennedy School's search committee for a new director of the Institute of Politics, discussed the post with him, according to Babbit's secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: A Disappointing Mixture of Pop Style and Deep Ideas | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Young monsters. The attackers are all 14 to 17. Their youth is yet another source of mitigation. In addition to class and racial disadvantage, we must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Crime And Responsibility | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...Temple, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Walker's characters recount history using Latin and Native American folk models. The central figure, Lissie, describes turning points in humankind's history as observed through one half-million years of reincarnation...

Author: By Amy B. Shuffelton, | Title: Pulitzer-Winning Author Alice Walker Visits Coop | 5/5/1989 | See Source »

...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 416 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Myth to Be Taken on Faith | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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