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And I've tried to explain it to people who didn't know the book. What it's like is if Philip Marlowe wasn't such a stupid lush and a romantic but got stuck in Auschwitz, maybe [Raymond] Chandler [author of the Marlowe detective novels] would have been able...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Portraying Life in a Death Camp | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

To accommodationists, previous Supreme Court decisions appear to be sending the message that religion is acceptable so long as it is not too public. It is a strange definition of free speech and religious liberty, they note, that prohibits mention of God. "Angela Davis, a communist, was the speaker at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Holy War | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

IT IS COMMON KNOWLEDGE that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale Game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game through The Ages | 11/23/1991 | See Source »

Why the great influx? Fresno, so proudly un-Californian in the past, is one of the few places in the state that have not already reached a choke-off point for high prices, pollution, crime or the fear of those things. The city is growing by fleeing itself -- in developments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close-Up: Two Boom Towns Fresno the Last Real California | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

More fireworks are expected to erupt on Capitol Hill this week as a Senate subcommittee hears evidence in the B.C.C.I. scandal. Witnesses ranging from CIA and State Department officials to Georgia businessman Bert Lance and a former top B.C.C.I. executive will drop one bombshell after another, say staff members on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Subtle About These Charges | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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