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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The publisher seems particularly ill-suited for such an assignment. His life so far has been a model of irresponsibility: heavy drinking, an accumulation of debts, ex-wives and mistresses. But Barley is not the only odd man out. Witnessing and narrating these events is Horatio Benedict dePalfrey, a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Master Hits His Old Pace | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Well, now you know, because these were among the more than 350,000 thoughts floating around inside the head of the late Primo Levi, and a good number of them have been crystallized in this engaging posthumous collection of essays. For most of his life Levi was known mainly for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acute Agility | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

Levi was a professional chemist, manager of a paint factory in Turin until he retired at 58 to write, and so he writes from a scientific perspective and with a scientist's precision. But he was also a humanist, a lover of poetry, and these brief essays demonstrate the remarkable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Acute Agility | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

We as Black Greeks feel that our organizations were all born for a common purpose: to further the cause and contribute to the struggle for Black equality; to spread brotherly and sisterly love; and to uplift our brothers and sisters not as fortunate as ourselves. We have succeeded in all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Black Greeks | 5/26/1989 | See Source »

Once hailed as the most liberal Communist leader in Eastern Europe, Janos Kadar has become a political pariah in his own country. Following his ouster as General Secretary last May after almost 32 years in power, Kadar, 76, remained party president. Last week Kadar was stripped of the largely ceremonial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungary: The Last Goodbye | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

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