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Long-distance buses have every modern contraption--airplane seats, music, and even a copious box lunch. The women scuttle onto the bus, swaddled in layers and layers of travelling caftan; only their eyes are visible. In the more conservative southern regions women are supposedly allowed to expose only one eye, though it is often attested that they observe much more with that one eye than other people do with...

Author: By Emily Apter, | Title: The Veil Rises Slowly and Frenchness Lingers | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

...Brown decision, Kluger assumes, cannot be understood unless a reader is familiar with previous litigation. More than 100 cases are cited; in addition, the reader is given a cram course in constitutional law, with copious quotes from The Federalist. The Supreme Court passes in review, as well as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Change of Heart | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

...rushed down to the library to do more research. There I found more information on the origins of the Christmas celebration than I had ever dreamed existed. Books on the legend of Santa Claus. Discussions of the rise of the Christmas tree. I took copious notes...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Merry Winter Solstice | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

Partly to adjust the image that the novel created of both mother and daughter, Mrs. Plath is publishing an edited edition of Sylvia's copious letters home, from the time she entered Smith College in 1950 until her death. The correspondence will not erase The Bell Jar -those caricatures are indelible. But they do give a different, lively, poignant picture of Sylvia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Two Lives | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

Although Scarf only writes about what interests her, she keeps extremely busy and has produced a copious amount of material. In part, it is for this reason that she applied for the Nieman fellowship. "The Nieman is definitely allowing me to do something I couldn't do otherwise. This is coming at an absolutely crucial time in my career. I have done articles. Now I want time to think, read, write and explore," Scarf says. "I think I applied because this seems to me as if it was made for people who weren't getting time to think...

Author: By Lou ANN Walker, | Title: A Tenacious Grip on Journalism | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

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