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...Britain's young literary lions, Andrew Norman Wilson, 38, has been busiest at marking his territory. Since the mid-1970s he has published eleven satiric novels, plus biographies of John Milton, Sir Walter Scott, Hilaire Belloc, and last year's much and justly praised Tolstoy. In addition, Wilson has written about Christian theology and religious affairs (How Can We Know?; The Church in Crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Triumph of Trying-Really-Hard | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Gates argues that the trend towards literature in Black studies stemmed in part from the publication of novels by Black women in the mid-1970s, just the time when Afro-American Studies departments were in a period of crisis...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Literary Scholars Remake Black Studies | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

Leveraged buyouts seemed like a small-time, unglamorous financial gimmick when KKR began hawking them on Wall Street in the mid-1970s. But the arrangements were an immediate hit with managers who saw the wisdom of taking their companies private to escape corporate raiders. LBOs were also a boon to promising firms that wanted to grow outside Wall Street's harsh spotlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Limit? Ross Johnson and the RJR Nabisco Takeover Battle | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...journalistic yardage to TIME. He spent more than a decade as an editor and political writer for New York magazine, and his weekly column on national affairs was often quoted by other journals. He did a short stint as publisher of the paperback house Berkley Books. In the mid-1970s, Kramer was editor and publisher of More, a lively journalism review. Most recently he served as chief political correspondent for U.S. News & World Report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 28 1988 | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...Turkey, Gart and Arafat were joined by assistant managing editor Karsten Prager, who also had interviewed Arafat repeatedly while serving as TIME's Middle East bureau chief in the mid-1970s. "Arafat hasn't changed much," says Prager, "despite some bitter years since then. He has an amazing ability to bounce back from defeat and make himself essential to the Palestinian cause." Still eager to talk, Arafat later bumped an aide and a bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Nov 7 1988 | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

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