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"...If they invite you to a party, go. If they give you a drink, drink. If they give you a smoke, smoke. But experience these things, and tell us in your own mind what you have learned from the outside, and then compare it. Is it happening here, or is...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: The Forgotten Americans | 11/2/1977 | See Source »

Under pressure there have always been and always will be, in every country of the world, instances of the misuse of physical power. Yet to compare this to the genocidal policy of the Nazis, as Shahak does, and to speak in terms of the "Nazification of Israel" -- this is nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shahak and His Claims | 11/1/1977 | See Source »

You want to hear this amazing thing my pre-med roommate told me last week? Here it is. Take any triangle; assume it's a right triangle for simplicity's sake. OK. Now, measure one of the sides of the triangle you've taken. Now measure the other side. Now...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boring | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

Such bare-bones plotting gives only a hint of The Honourable Schoolboy's glistening social observation, its luminous intelligence and its immense and varied cast. Among the principals: the incomparable Lizzie, a daydreamy beautiful loser, "punchball" for many lovers, whose flaws prove even more compelling than her easy virtue: "not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In for the Gold | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

But he neglected to take his equilibrium along. "Success often catches a writer at his most morbid time," Le Carré theorizes, "when he has finished a book. He has been to the end of his talent. It is a frightening view. I went a bit crazy." Flung into the celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In for the Gold | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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