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BY THIS TIME I was spending most of my time with the girl who lived beneath me. She was small and squat with frizzy hair and with a grim tightness at the corners of her mouth, like the look of middle age. She was Jewish, from New York City--compulsive...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Oh Woe, Alas? Not exactly, for wisdom comes from loss. Pretty women, as everyone knows, are given special treatment. But beauty is a costly possession, and women pay for it by pretending that the skin is the self, and carrying on a discreet, lifelong flirtation with the world that encourages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Lady | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Howls of pain and madness echo through these pages: Heracles tearing at the poisoned shirt on his back as a dead monster's venom scalds his veins; Ajax on the plains of Troy-big, dumb Ajax, crazed by the goddess Athene-slashing bulls' throats and breaking the backs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Classical Blood | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

FOR the past five years, with America's energies and fears focused on Viet Nam, Washington pretty much took Europe for granted. Now the Administration is noticing the Continent in a way that suggests that Europeans may soon want a new era of benign neglect. "Maybe we've...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE RIVALS (I): How America Looks at Europe | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

Jack undergoes a complex metamorphosis. He adopts the appearances of normality, a hair cut and the most elegant Victorian dress. (We're in the 1950s, so if this seems a little odd, we can chalk it up to that tolerated margin.) Actually, Jack has come to believe that the year...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren, | Title: The Mad Prince of Privilege | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

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