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...school, and I try to keep abreast of major tax developments. Still, I'm one of those fools who overwithholds and gives the Government an interest-free loan of my money. I'm happy though-I got my refund two weeks ago." Los Angeles Reporter Laura Meyers' returns, she says, get ever more complicated: "This year I had to fill out a 1040, a Schedule C for business proprietor, a Schedule G for income averaging and a Schedule D for I can't even remember what. But I find that if I read everything line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 28, 1983 | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

...only learned about the entire world, I learned more about the United States from fellow students around the country," said Laura Duiker, a former student...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: World Cruise | 3/9/1983 | See Source »

Seymour-Smith spares readers another torturous slog through the Great Dionysus-Apollo Rift. Instead, he concentrates productively on Graves' leading partner in Goddess worship, Poet Laura Riding, who lived with him from 1926 to 1939. The couple never exchanged marriage vows and after a brief time even stopped sleeping together. The relationship began in London with the blessing of Graves' first wife, Nancy Nicholson, who bore the poet four children but refused to accept his name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artful Pursuit of Goddesses | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

Riding's ideas of independence were more daring. Before shipping off to Majorca with Graves, she fell in love with an Irish journalist named Phibbs. The "strange Trinity" (Nancy, Laura and Robert) became a stranger quartet. Even the gallant and scrupulous biographer cannot prevent the arrangement from sounding like a send-up of The Edge of Night. When Phibbs rejected Riding, she swallowed Lysol and jumped from a fourth-story window. A horrified Robert leaped after her, but not before running down to the third floor. Laura sustained fractures of the spine and pelvis. Robert, with the luck of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Artful Pursuit of Goddesses | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...like to manipulate people," said Laura D. Blackbuene, vice-president of the New York-based Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Inc. She will be conducting a study group entitled. "Mediation and Conflict Resolution: Applications in the Public Sector...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: IOP Fellow Discuss Careers Call Defeats 'Inspirational' | 2/4/1983 | See Source »

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