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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Two weeks from now, when a South Korean athlete carries a flame kindled in Greece, the fountainhead of democracy, into Seoul's Olympic stadium, the host country will have more to show off than a vibrant economy: it will be able to point to an astonishing political accomplishment. In little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Breaking into the Big Leagues | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

Joe has few illusions about imperfection, his own or the church's. Yet, although he is far removed from his days as a literal hair-shirt mystic at the seminary, he still believes the church is the one sure way to salvation. This, compounded by a moral disgust at his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Separation Of Church and Dreck WHEAT THAT SPRINGETH GREEN | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Freshman year is the closest thing to atabula rasa any of us are likely ever to bea part of. History and memory don't have to matterif we don't want them to. Cast into this vortex,however, I flailed about. I was like an electronin the new physics. Here...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Looking Back at the Experiences of the Class of '88 | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

One friend thinks that the desire--need?--to beliked is in itself an imperfection, a sign ofcowardice almost. Needless to say, I disagree.Getting along with others need not be the same asgoing along with them. Perhaps the most importantthing I have learned is when and how to shut up.Not every...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Looking Back at the Experiences of the Class of '88 | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

Vanderbyl is responsible for more superb corporate logos than any other designer of his generation. Ordinarily, logos tend to epitomize the worst tendencies of modern design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Nouvelle Cuisine For the Eyes | 6/8/1987 | See Source »

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