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Finally Lowell threw his harpoon. He "said to Frost that I wanted to ask him how his reputation had become so exaggerated." Wilson does not report how Frost responded to that -- perhaps he just gasped -- but adds that the victim "looked like a clever old elephant." And after dinner, Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Never Apologize, Always Explain the Fifties | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Meanwhile, U.S. military planners began going through the motions of considering other possible training sites. Fort Benning, Ga., was mentioned. So was, to the horror of some officials at State, politically volatile Puerto Rico. But most experts suspected that in the end, as part of a "covert" anti-Sandinista campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwelcome Guests | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

"When you're in bed with an elephant, the situation is uncomfortable. You're afraid of being crushed by the elephant but you're also afraid of being abandoned by it."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quotable Notables | 9/7/1986 | See Source »

Formality is taboo. The president is not Dr. Goldberger but "Murph" to faculty and students alike. Professors lecture in jeans and open-collared shirts, shorts and sandals. They encourage questions and expect challenges. Gray has been known to wear a horse's head while lecturing. Feynman, who played a bongo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Formality Is Taboo California Institute of Technology | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Whoever said dead men tell no tales did not account for Ernest Hemingway. Since he was buried in 1961, ten books have been published with his name on them. They include memoirs, letters, sketches and two novels, Islands in the Stream and now The Garden of Eden, a kinky love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Old Man and the Sea Change the Garden of Eden | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

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