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It is as if the rooms were chambers of the heart, and the houses their owners objectified. Each room not only has a mood (blue, red) but also is one; and the rooms that are rarely or never entered are like secrets. The great old houses are less like gothic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sad Truth About Big Spenders | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

Nicholas is a typical young Dickens hero. Steadfast, upright and much beleaguered, he struggles to maintain a life for his sister and newly widowed mother against the unexpected threats and grim incursions of greedy uncles, sinister aristocrats, crooked politicians and assorted malefactors. He holds down a variety of jobs-perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Raising the Dickens in London | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

Although Myers secured the Democratic nomination in the April primary with 26 per cent of the vote in a 19-man race, Philadelphia's Democratic establishment has deserted Myers since his conviction and subsequent expulsion. Mayor William J. Green, announcing his decision to endorse independent candidate Thomas Foglietta, said, "When...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Dead But Still Running | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

Secondary education is an older tradition than grammar schooling in Cambridge; it was not until 1648 that a public school opened here. Located on Crooked St. (now Holyoke St.) across from the present site of the Hasty Pudding Club, the two-story stone building boasted "gable end-s...wrought in...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Church, State, and Liquor A Social History | 10/4/1980 | See Source »

The Japanese are not only fussy about the workmanship at the plant; they are also meticulous about the cars they buy. Customers will refuse delivery of a new car that has a stray smudge of grease or a crooked seat seam. All U.S. cars and most foreign ones must be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: An Industrial Nirvana | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

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