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DIED. Paul Scott, 57, British novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 13, 1978 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

The book's mechanical sex might be dismissed except for a hint that Jones intended to connect that copulation with some theory of war. His only attempt to say anything unfamiliar about combat comes in a rumination assigned to Landers. Brooding over how he and his fellow soldiers, so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G.I. Wounded | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

Prefer something more meaty? Two very different productions address themselves more seriously to the mundane grind. The Loeb Ex presents Chekhov's brooding and beautiful The Seagull tonight, tomorrow and Saturday; tickets are free to this 19th-century naturalist masterpiece. The Cambridge Ensemble hosts an original multi-media show entitled...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: One Gershwin and Two Sneakers | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

The controversy over the trial has continued for nearly 30 years. Who was telling the truth? Was it the serene and unfailingly courteous Hiss, who went to Lewisburg prison for 44 months and today, at age 73, still professes innocence? Or was it his brooding, tormented accuser, Whittaker Chambers, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hiss: A New Book Finds Him Guilty as Charged | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

It was the tenth anniversary of what Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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