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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American officials gradually came to realize that information was leaking from the embassy. But according to CBS, they did not actually discover the bugs until 1984, after receiving an informal tip from the foreign service officers of a friendly nation that they had detected the bugging of some of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Serious Game | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

In some senses, The Oriental Renaissance betrays its own antiquity. Schwab's sprawling intertextual odyssey aims at an epic global vision reconciling East and West. He confesses, quoting Walt Whitman's "A Passage to India": "And I myself did not anticipate... that I would discover Whitman's line 'Thou roundness...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: A Passage to Renaissance | 4/5/1985 | See Source »

Between 1936 and 1940, Schwab edited the journal of international poetry. Yggdrasil His appreciation of the German Romantics rests in particular on what he views as their spiritual assimilation of the Oriental. His treatment of Herder discerns in the pre-Romantic philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: A Passage to Renaissance | 4/5/1985 | See Source »

The figure of the nanny looms large in history. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote a wistful Winston Churchill of his beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Beyond a Spoonful of Sugar | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

IT IS DIFFICULT to discover why the Coop can't offer its members a better discount. Unlike most co-ops, it does not regularly send its members financial statements. In fact, in order to find out anything about the Coop's financial status you have to set up an appointment...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: The Uncooperative Coop | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

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