Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The problem of Penn's image is not new, but it has received considerable attention in the past five years. In 1977, Martin Meyerson, then president of the university, acknowledged that "Students and faculty for years have seen themselves as orphans in the Ivy League and elsewhere." A public relations...
THE EDITORS of the German newsmagazine Stern thought they had the journalistic scoop of the century. But the diaries of Adolf Hitler "discovered" by the magazine turned out to be the hoax of the century--blatant forgeries. After Stern reluctantly handed over several of the 64 volumes to the West...
We meet individuals mostly, each supposedly filling a pocket of French life. There are three comedians, who turn out to have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion...
Simple Truths suffers from all the predictable flaws of a first novel. The story is fragmented, the insights are a bit cliched, and the real plot--the relationship between Susan and Leonid--remains hidden. Yet the story does show potential. Sheila Levin would fare better in her next novel if...
A national survey, conducted for TIME by the polling firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, found that 11% of U.S. adults admit having sampled cocaine, and one in four says that "someone close to me has tried it." Cocaine in the early 1980s has become a democratic craze instead of...