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...cordial guy, but my time isn't limitless. I can't afford to spend three hours a day answering letters. History 1370 takes time, you know...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: You Asked for It | 3/14/1980 | See Source »

...army was entrusted with the task of training and equipping the Pasdaran, an assignment the army deeply resented for two reasons: the army itself faced a shortage of equipment and a cutback in supplies, while the Pasdaran had a seemingly limitless budget. Army leaders did not hide their satisfaction when the Pasdaran, basically an urban force, fared badly in mountain warfare against the Kurds. The army, by contrast, refused to be drawn into hit-and-run encounters with the insurgents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: People Are Scared to Death | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

Daydreaming about the death of a spouse is a punishable offense in the world of this novel, particularly when the dreamer has a girlfriend with limitless funds and a small portfolio of scruples. When Clare does indeed die violently, Strickland and the London police seem curiously unwilling to suspect the one person who had most to gain from the murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Acts | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...life to the role of gestation in shaping world religion. But he skips frenetically from one to the next, milking only the most sensational aspects and indulging freely in irresponsible speculation. Our aggravation is heightened by his persistent editorial voice in the background, applauding the genius of this, the limitless potential of that...

Author: By James Aisenberg, | Title: Carl's Charisma | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Finally, a man and woman unhappily in love enter the valley, and the spirit enters him. It finds "a world more suffocating and painful than the Atlájala had thought possible." Within the woman, though, "each element was magnified in intensity, the whole sphere of being was immense, limitless." At the top of his art, Bowles is an anima; to inhabit this book is to experience pain and immensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Steps off the Beaten Path | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

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