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...West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand that perfectly," Chazov said. "They would also understand that if anyone were to reappear in public two weeks after a stroke-well, it could only be a miracle." Chazov was awarded the Lenin Prize last month for helping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Still in Charge | 5/10/1982 | See Source »

...West Germany as we enjoy with, say, Austria or Switzerland or, for that matter, Hungary. The first sentence of our constitution, which was adopted in 1949 under the stewardship of the victors of World War II, speaks of the task of re-establishing German unity. I have sworn my oath of office on that constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Perceptions of Friends | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...true with books. For some reason a book borrower feels that a book, once taken, is his own. This removes both memory and guilt from the transaction. Making matters worse, the lender believes it too. To keep up appearances, he may solemnly extract an oath that the book be brought back as soon as possible; the borrower answering with matching solemnity that the Lord might seize his eyes were he to do otherwise. But it is all a play. Once gone, the book is gone forever. The lender, fearing rudeness, never asks for it again. The borrower never stoops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would You Mind If I Borrowed This Book? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...instead of resigning, I found myself testifying during hearings on my nomination as Secretary of State. On Sept. 22, Chief Justice Warren Burger?who in a moving gesture had interrupted a European trip?administered the oath of office in the East Room of the White House in the presence of my parents and children. My parents were as in a dream; they could hardly believe that 35 years after being driven out of their native country, their son should have reached our nation's highest appointive executive office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YEARS OF UPHEAVAL | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

...works. You swindle a man and then grab even the sense of injury for yourself. A devouring man devours all there is."), porcine Maxie of the sexual deviations ("if he should every be elected to office, he wouldn't put his hand on a Bible to take the oath, he'd put it on his cock")--we can see the classic Bellovian scenario shaping up: The world conspiring against the thinker with the twist this time of family acting the parts of conspirators...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: Bellow and the Burden of His Past | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

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