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When the voters of French-speaking Quebec rejected Premier René Lévesque's attempt to lead their province out of Canada in last May's referendum, the relief was palpable throughout the country. Yet few Canadians were under any delusion that the verdict would mean a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Trudeau Goes It Alone | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

There is no second coming in this novel. There isn't even a premonition--only the sad spectacle of a writer at the end of his ingenuity, forced to undermine the foundations of his best work out of desperation or delusion. His characters don't make a new start at...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

There is no second coming in this novel. There isn't even a premonition--only the sad spectacle of a writer at the end of his ingenuity, forced to undermine the foundations of his best work out of desperation or delusion. His characters don't make a new start at...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/10/1980 | See Source »

There is no second coming in this novel. There isn't even a premonition--only the sad spectacle of a writer at the end of his ingenuity, forced to undermine the foundations of his best work out of desperation or delusion. His characters don't make a new start at...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Anticlimactic Apocalypse | 9/8/1980 | See Source »

INTERMITTENT sucesses only provide the architects of such a program with a false sense of progress. The self-delusion, though, is apparent; take, for example, the case of the men's swim team.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous | 5/21/1980 | See Source »

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