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...dismal lessons of the 20th century," writes Paul Johnson, "that, once a state is allowed to expand, it is almost impossible to contract." John son, a lapsed liberal and a former editor of Britain's New Statesman, blames this condition on an unbridled will to power that was inadvertently released when Newton's orderly universe fell to Einstein's theory of relativity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Enemy of the State | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...legendary General Manager Sam Pollock the season before. Torrey, bow-tied and bespectacled, cuts that sort of figure now. During the Islanders' impoverished years, when their teen-age draft choices were always exchangeable for veteran castoffs, Torrey's patience formed the foundation of a castle. That dismal first season (just twelve victories in 78 games), a 20-year-old right wing born in Stockholm, Sweden, was so clumsy that he had to be tutored by a lady figure skater. Now Bob Nystrom's name appears four times on Lord Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Putting Four Cups on Ice | 5/30/1983 | See Source »

...thinclads had greater success in the other field events, which were held indoors because of the dismal weather. Co-Captain Gus Udo saw his overseas ticket go to Bulldog Doug Wiggins when Wiggins leaped a quarter of an inch longer than Udo in the long jump, but Udo came right back to lead a Crimson sweep of the triple jump...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Men Thinclads Whip Yale, Women Edged Out | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...certainly no accident that Pope John Paul II is head of the Catholic Church in these times. He has come along when the world needs him most. Having lived under Nazi and Communist regimes in his native Poland, he knows firsthand the dismal failure of totalitarian and atheistic ideologies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1983 | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...deutsche mark against the failing franc. To the French it was "the deutsche mark problem," and Mitterrand expected Bonn to correct it by simply raising the value of the West German currency. To the West Germans and others it was a "franc problem" caused by France's dismal economic performance. When the finance ministers of the ten European Community nations met in Brussels, the stage was set for a collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe: The Battle for the Franc | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

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