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Bcat 'tun bust' tun, that's our custom...

Author: By Atony J. Blinken, | Title: Fun on the Sidelines | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...like time management. Tryouts for the glee club or the football team. Beer bashes. Join the struggle to save Lebanon; join the struggle to save Israel. At Princeton the freshmen and sophomores meet each other in a traditional series of games and rope pulls known as Cane Spree, which custom decrees that the freshmen lose. At Gettysburg College, the rituals of getting acquainted are even more folksy: a "shoe scramble" determines who will dance with whom. At Carleton, there is a fried-chicken picnic and square dancing on the grassy area known as the Bald Spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Five Ways to Wisdom | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...custom, the State Department retaliated for the ouster. Last week it barred re-entry to the U.S. by Melor Sturua, the vacationing chief Washington correspondent for the Soviet newspaper Izvestiya. In theory Sturua could return if the Soviets reinstate Nagorski's credentials, but that prospect is considered unlikely. Indeed, Newsweek has already reassigned Nagorski to Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: On the Outs | 8/16/1982 | See Source »

...totted up the rewards of being a successful farmer. They included two Porsches, a Datsun, three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, a redwood home perched on a hilltop in Northern California, a three-bedroom house with an outdoor Jacuzzi near the beach in Los Angeles and a custom-built vacation hideaway in Hawaii. Then he opened up a plastic bag and pinched out a sample of the crop that has made his fortune of nearly $1 million: marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass Was Never Greener | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

...doodle, or use the chisel impulsively. But precisely because the chances of succeeding with an amendment are remote, there has always been something satisfyingly theatrical and essentially safe about proposing amendments to enshrine various panaceas, transcendent gripes, noble urges and crackpot illuminations. The process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because they have any chance of being nominated or elected. God forbid. It is just nice to hear the name boom in the hall, to have the transient thrill, something to tell the grandchildren. The mere proposal of a constitutional amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: An Amendment That Should Not Pass | 8/9/1982 | See Source »

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