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...serious work between the docudramas, then, splits equally between novels and poetry, of which she has published nine collections so far. She sees the two forms as complementary and not only in the different possibilities they lend...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Realistic Feminism | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

...months ago when the Corporation decided to reconsider the University's blanket ban on investments in blanks that lend directly to the South African government, many students wondered why. President Bok and the Fellows had no response...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keeping Track... | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

...prices for hard-cover books are high [March 22], but a ticket to a Broadway show costs two or three times as much for only a few pleasant hours, and that's it. You can reread a book again and again. You can lend it to family and friends. It looks nice on the bookshelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...Never lend books, for no one ever returns them: the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...abjure our pettiness, open our libraries, and let our most valued possessions fly from house to house, sharing the wealth? Certain clerics with vows of poverty did this. Inside their books was printed not EX LIBRIS but AD USUM-for the use of-indicating that it is better to lend than to keep, that all life's gifts are transitory. Should we not follow the clerics? Or might we just for once summon our true feelings on this subject and, upon hearing the terrible question, smile back and speak from the heart: "Mind? I'll break your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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