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But Vendler hears all poets speak, and Part Of Nature, Part Of Us is her attempt to externalize her communion with these poets. She possesses a tremendous facility with words and ideas: she compares poets to artists (Stevens to Cezanne in their similar sense of modern, to name one example...

Author: By James L. Cott, | Title: A Poetry Party | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

The seance goes just as Baba planned. But, suddenly she feels cold hands upon her throat. Rushing her clients out the door, she blames Toby for scaring her, while fearing that the hands she felt were actually the hands of the dead. On another night. Baba hears a sound that...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: Laughing at Death | 4/11/1980 | See Source »

No novel was ever harmed by an irresistible beginning. Freddy's Book, Author John Gardner's eighth novel, is a case in point. While riding the lecture circuit in the Midwest, Professor Jack Winesap meets a strange old historian with a stranger pronouncement: "I have a son who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Devil's Due | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

Despite his stern rhetoric, Reagan is almost never visibly angered, even by the most hostile questions, and banters easily with practically anyone; he and his wife Nancy have made a ritual of passing out candy to reporters on campaign planes and buses. The old entertainer usually seeks to entertain his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Rousing Return | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

The point of this chilling scenario is that every argument one now hears being advanced by the Soviets to justify the invasion of Afghanistan could also be applied to the Iranian crisis hypothesized above. The Soviets repeatedly-and, quite possibly, with some sincerity-deny having a grand design for a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Proximity and Self-Interest | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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