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Most foreign intelligence officials do not think the damage has gone so far that it is not containable. Says a top West German intelligence officer: "The CIA'S work is still very good, but it's not up to past lev els. What the CIA urgently needs now is to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaping Tomorrow's CIA | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

And it is that philosophy that underlies great American nov els as diverse as Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn - and The Old Man and the Sea, in which an angler's prize catch is finally reclaimed by nature.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Sport of Fishing: The Lure of Failure | 4/1/1974 | See Source »

The graveyard bristled with baleful intensity. Strangely colossal bats beat the air around my face, and chittering hordes of toadlike things chortled in infandous rhythms of ululation in dissonances of extreme morbidity and cacodemonial ghastliness. As I somehow anticipated, the cowled figure, his face ever hidden, approached and tugged my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dream Lurker | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

Mark Harris, 50, has always worked a vein of comedy bordering on moral outrage. Even his pastoral baseball nov els of the '50s (The Southpaw, Bang the Drum Slowly) were brushed with sad ness. The undertone of finely controlled anger that ran through Harris' early works grew, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dies Irae | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

In a quick rundown, Spender typecasts French student-rebels as "romantic," West Germans as "theoretic" and Americans as "hysterical." Columbia's wildly improvising white students ("Let's take a hostage!") he accuses of being more neurotic than the blacks, who, he says, had limited but precise objectives. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sons of the Revolution | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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