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Every volume was a bestseller. The tenth, Rousseau and Revolution, won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize. Yet the very qualities that helped sell his books often earned the sneers of scholars. He gave history's eccentrics (Casanova, Caligula) more than their due. He was often glib ("Voltaire + Rousseau = Diderot"). On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Biographer of Mankind | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Suddenly things are different. Yale now wears the bell-bottoms in the Ivy League family. Their president gets attacked by Spiro Agnew. Their Classics Professor Erich Segal writes a "novel" about Youth Romance Today (Jen...what would you say if I told you...I think...I'm in love with...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: The Greening of Yale | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

The hard part is remembering, amid the incessant bending of elbows for vodka collins, gin and tonics, seven and sevens, and pitchers of imported beer, where it is that you are supposed to do all of this drinking, and a lesser amount of consuming solid fibers. You ask your Yale...

Author: By Andrew C. Karp, SPECIAL TO THE WHAT IS TO BE DONE | Title: Weekend Odyssey in New Haven | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

Many had trouble accepting this motivation, especially when Nicholson's character did not receive the retribution Cain had planned, the (unjust, but plausible) charge of murdering Nora Papadakis, who dies when their car crashes. Rafelson explained his modified denouement as sufficiently powerful: seeing Jack Nicholson cry makes you feel rotten...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: All Work and No Play Make Jack a Dull Boy | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

1--Kentucky. The Wildcats didn't have a great recruiting year for a change, but they return enough talent so that it doesn't matter. Kentucky lives and dies with Dirk Manniefield and Sam Bowie, and right now there isn't a better guard-center combination around.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roundball Roundup | 11/12/1981 | See Source »

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