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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I wonder why I do it," Virginia Woolf mused on Oct. 7, 1919. "Partly, I think, from my old sense of the race of time 'Time's winged chariot hurrying near'--Does it stay it?" "It" was diary writing, and the question was rhetorical. Of course the entries could stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Personals: A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries | 1/7/1985 | See Source »

Stung by the growing number of his critics, Mitterrand went on national television last week to explain that his foreign policy should be judged by long-range results rather than day-to-day appearances. Though the opposition remained unconvinced, Roland Cayrol, a pollster for Louis Harris voiced his belief that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Season of Discontent | 12/31/1984 | See Source »

The style of athletic leave-taking seems to have diminished since Ted Williams homered in his final at-bat, when the Boston fans failed to draw him back out of the dugout for the purest reason, put perfectly by John Updike, that "gods do not answer letters." In mortal and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just One More Season | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

Coaches and customers frequently hail the pro who "wants the ball" down the stretch, the taker of the buzzer shot, Mr. Clutch. For eight or nine seasons, Cousy thought of himself that way. But over the final two or three, he tumbled to an almost opposite criterion for a professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just One More Season | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

But a call has gone out too ironic not to answer. A gala N.B.A. all-star oldtimers' game, which he found easy to ignore when the proceeds benefited the Players Association, has shifted its cause to the codgers themselves. "Sort of an old actors' fund," he says, "for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Just One More Season | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

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