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Berlin has a sure grasp of the ragtime era; his earlier Ragtime: A Musical and Cultural History is an exemplary scholarly monograph on a complicated subject. The Joplin biography is equally formidable in its research. Combing census records, city directories and newspaper files across the Midwest, Berlin follows in detail Joplin's travels from his birthplace near Texarkana, Texas (his father Giles was a freed slave), through the bandstands and bordellos of the Mississippi to Tin Pan Alley, the budding popular-music scene in New York City. Berlin then recounts Joplin's syphilis-induced descent into madness, a deterioration that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: American Schubert | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

Somehow, Song said, she managed to break free from her husband's grasp and fleethe apartment, the report said...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Police Arrest Alleged Abuser | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

...week we will relive the excitement of the first Apollo moonwalk. We will argue what it all added up to for the average person. This was not like Dwight Eisenhower's interstate highway system, which meant a new freedom for all Americans. Apollo's meanings are more difficult to grasp but may be more important. Historian Melvin Kranzberg insists that "man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Went to the Moon | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...Throughout this process, Candace impressed everyone...with her impressive grasp of crucial human resources issues, such as benefits and compensation," she wrote...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Human Resources Shaken by Change | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

There is a dangerous accumulation of evidence that Clinton operates by the phony physics of virtual reality (appearances, conjurations, evaporating threats, a governance of attitude and feeling) and has not a cold, hard grasp of plain fact. One has a suspicion that Clinton does not know that the reality of reality always wins. Ultimately, in the courtroom of history, life is fair -- and often brutal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living in Virtual Reality | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

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