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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke, the father who works selling stocks and bonds represents "capital," the mother who is a house-wife represents "management," and the female maid stands for "labor." The punch line is that sometimes, capital "exploits" labor while management sleeps...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: When a Joke Is No Joke | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...children loved to jump around Widener," says Jana M. Kiely, co-master of Adams and mother of four. "The bench around it was like a gym for them...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: When Home Is A House: Children of Masters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard junior, but she got an early start on her extracurricular activities at Harvard: "I was in The Beggar's Opera with my father when I was four or five," she says. She says she never got to see the end of the show because her mother always whisked her off to bed after her brief appearance on stage...

Author: By Tracy Kramer, | Title: When Home Is A House: Children of Masters | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...getting his family to the U.S. in time to save Eleni. The resentment colors Gage's transformation from a greenhorn with an unpronounceable name to an American success story bylined Nicholas Gage. Only when the author has his own family does he come to understand the difference between a mother's love and a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Some Kind Of Hero | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...parabolas, as he explains why he recommends certain strokes and movements. "The ball doesn't know if you are hitting forehand or backhand," he says, "or if you're wearing your lucky shorts. It only knows how the racquet meets it. You can't violate the physical laws because Mother Nature will get you every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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