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...mud-spattered book that was found with the body of the soldier offered a revealing glimpse of the fanaticism that has kept the war at its fevered pitch. The 193-page battlefront primer, titled Book of Souvenirs: Propaganda for the Front and for the War is the work of the Ayatullah's Revolutionary Guards and was intended to embolden the young volunteers in suicidal human-wave attacks. The bottom corner of each page of the book bears a printed blood-red splotch, symbolizing glorious martyrdom. There are photographs showing the Ayatullah in the midst of adoring Iranian masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: Children's Lit | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...description for the boring men who come courting his mother, and the marsh teaches the need for patient observation: "If you go around beating the world with questions like a reporter or federal oral history junior sociologist ... all the answers will go back into mystery like fiddlers into pluff mud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Five Auspicious, Artful and Amusing Debuts | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...other side of the pond are a white gazebo and two large bird cages, nestled in trees by the water. In one cage is a pair of peacocks, the female mud-colored, the male electric blue even in the dark. Jackson walks over to a stable, where a ram named Mr. Tibbs and a llama named Louie stick their heads out to nuzzle. We go to the garage and climb the stairs to the second story. It is a picture gallery. The walls and ceilings are papered with hundreds and hundreds of pictures of the Jackson family. It is like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: He Hasn't Gone Crazy over Success | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...architectural consultant, a cheerful young provincial from Chillicothe, Ohio, went from door to door asking astonished Sioux mothers whether they--preferred gas stoves to electric stoves; whether they liked bunk-beds; whether the children could use a "mud room" for their boots and galoshes. The poor fellow seldom received an answer...

Author: By Richard J. Margolis, | Title: Indian Resiliency | 3/17/1984 | See Source »

...rest of the weekly fact sheet listed items such as a lice outbreak in Hollis, incorrect Chem 10 grades, intramural mud wrestling and a University Health Services seminar on "Sexual Techniques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fake Bulletin | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

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