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This battle rages through his books: in the old fishing village of St. Botolphs, in Manhattan apartments and in privileged communities named Shady Hill, Bullet Park or Proxmire Manor. The warriors drink too much, commit adultery, contemplate and sometimes execute murder. They ride trains, accepting a shuttle in lieu of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Celebrant of Sunlight | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

The daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one's vocational identity. Why, dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Daydreams of What You'd Rather Be | 6/28/1982 | See Source »

On the green, it is another story. An old story, a horror story. Golfers all lose their game, and usually their dignity, on the green. Nicklaus, who is in the throes of it at 42, won for the first time in two years last month with the steadying aid of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still Suited to a Tee | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

Bill once had hopes of becoming a broadcaster, but he found security as a switchman with Southern Bell. In 1960, when the Bettses moved from their first $5,500 house to a larger $ 19,000 house, Bill got a second job as an auditor for the state racing commission. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Way of Debt | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

Easier to verify was the news of a British Harrier assault on an Argentine fishing boat, the Narwal. Argentina first disclosed the attack, charging the British not only with bombing and strafing the boat southeast of the Falklands but also with attacking the vessel's lifeboat after the 26...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Teetering on the Brink | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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