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Perhaps Virginia Woolf's current stature and importance to present-day women derives from exactly the excruciating periods in her career. Bell makes clear her courage and fortitude, as he does her expert sense of her craft. In the end, reading Bell's account shows Virginia Woolf had more emotional...

Author: By Gwen Kinkead, | Title: Queen of the Highbrows | 1/10/1973 | See Source »

MEASURED on a human Richter scale, the Managua earthquake ranks as one of history's more modest seismic upheavals. In 1556 a quake collapsed thousands of cave dwellings in the cliffs of China's Shensi province, killing an estimated 830,000 peasants. In 1755 more than 50,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Century's Quakes | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

Trilling makes it clear that he is concerned more with consciousness than with behavior, more with cultural values as they have been interpreted and sometimes proposed by "certain men and classes of men...who make it their business to scrutinize the polity," than with the moral practices of the "masses...

Author: By Sharon Shurts, | Title: The Elusive Self | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

These three compose a strong nucleus, but the rest of the team is woefully inferior to former Amherst talent, according to Serues. "The first two are good squash players, there's no doubt about that, and our third man isn't bad. The rest of the material just isn't...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amherst Squash Team Faces Crimson Firing Squad Today | 12/6/1972 | See Source »

Straying Parties. Still iron-willed at 80, Tito seemed more determined than ever to prevent any division of Yugoslavia into separate states after his death. Such a prospect has always haunted him, and with reason. Five major national groups compose the fragile fabric of Yugoslav unity: the fiercely independent Serbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Fragile Fabric | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

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