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...would want to attract as many nations as possible to invest in developing the islands. Says Foreign Secretary Pym: "The best future for the islanders will be in rebuilding. If there is peace, stability and friendship in the whole region, people are more prosperous and their economic future is brighter." Pym also feels that the Falklands and Argentina must work out good relations if the islands are to prosper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Explosions and Breakthroughs | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...pressure." Just last night in Quincy House, I was sitting with a group of about eight guys when this really ugly girl walks up to the salad bar. At first a few of the guys were just making the normal sack and rode jokes, but then one of my brighter friends made a good point, which he properly attributed to you "What we need," he said, "is some negative social pressure to get these grotesque women out of here." Most of us are of the opinion that it could work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Follow the Leader | 5/28/1982 | See Source »

...most recent play has now opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theater. The initial scenes of "Master Harold"...and the Boys are amiable, even cozy. It is a rainy late afternoon, and two blacks are tidying up the St. Georges Park Tea Room, a modest luncheonette. The elder and brighter, Sam (Zakes Mokae), putters about while Willie (Danny Glover), a simpler soul, mops the floor. The two interrupt their labors from time to time to polish up fox-trot and waltz steps for a much anticipated dance contest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Dance Marathon | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...sentence of Ralph Waldo Emerson's is sometimes like that: the mind held at an unexpected angle ... a sudden burst of lovely blue light. It is not a transcendental illumination, exactly. Transcendentalism was a short-lived American moonshine. Emerson's light is brighter. It glows with an eerily sweet intelligence and morning energy. Emerson's sentences make a moral flute music-prose as a form of awakening. They move in a dance of sensual abstractions, small miracles of rhetoric. He had no genius for massive literary architecture; he dealt in the lustrous fragments of his essays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Bishop of Our Possibilities | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

These worries about economic matters, and about Reagan's handling of them, theoretically spell trouble for the President. Nonetheless, Americans still have a basic optimism about the economic future: 82% said they have some, or a lot of, confidence that brighter times are coming. This suggests that Reagan's standing in the polls would change quickly if the economic picture were to improve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Rising Woes | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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