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...books like Axel's Castle, he introduced a wide and insular American audience to the world's leading writers and most important historical events. To the Finland Station gave depth and drama to the Russian Revolution, and his essay "Oo, Those Awful Orcs!" deflated The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit long before they became cult books. By the beginning of World War II, he had failed to examine only one contemporary figure: Edmund Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Curmudgeon Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...weekly paycheck from her cashier's job. With a 13-year-old son, they are barely scraping along, fearful that the unemployment benefits may soon be exhausted. But Mrs. Stepney considers herself one of the lucky ones. "I have a job," she says simply. "I thank the Lord every day that I've been spared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State off Siege | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

Windsor shows his heart when he writes this way. As for his head, he says, "The Lord must have vaccinated me with a Victrola needle. You won't never get me to stop talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In North Carolina: Beware of Falling Cows | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Allah! Ya Allah! [O Lord! O Lord!]" The cries were from a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Amel Sharif, a patient at Amira Alia Hospital in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Between her screams, Amel tried to explain what had happened to her four days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ailing Schoolgirls | 4/18/1983 | See Source »

...Harvard Rugby Club is expected to roll over Cornell in today's Northeastern semifinal game in Albany, but the Crimson won't rest until the Lord's Day, when they've had a chance to avenge themselves against the University of Massachusetts...

Author: By Judith E. Bernstein, | Title: Ruggers Battle Cornell in Semis Today, Hope to Move on to UMass Revenge | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

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