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Thwarted expectations make for grumpy readers, and Freddy's manuscript, a rather dry narrative of political intrigue in 16th century Scandinavia, does not seem calculated to appease them. The chief antagonists to emerge from much torchlit huggermugger are Lars-Goren, an idealistic Swedish knight, and the Devil, who decides...

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

Hence Lars-Goren's dilemma: how to work for a presumed good (the liberation of his homeland) while being energetically assisted by the archetype of evil. This problem leads to further questions, most of them posed by Bishop Brask, an unscrupulous and despairing Swedish prelate. Could it be that...

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

Lars C. Bratt

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

But international bankers find this money eminently spendable. If Exxon earns $100 million on sales in Europe and deposits it in a U.S. bank's Lon don branch, the money becomes Eurodollars, and the bank can lend it to some other company to build a plant in Turin or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Clash over Stateless Cash | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

As promising as this research has been, Government agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Better Living Through Biochemistry | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

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