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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Is the Going Still Good? | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...Frank MacShane, a Columbia University professor, revealed his subject as a reconciliation of opposites. Chandler's fictive cast talked out of the sides of their mouths; the author was raised in England and given a classical education. His shamus was a magnet for oestrous women; Chandler married Cissy Pascal, 17 years his senior, and remained faithful. Businessmen in his novels are embodiments of venality or sloth; until middle age, Chandler was gainfully employed as a West Coast oil executive. Yet he had much in common with Marlowe, the incorrodible private eye who knew that "down these mean streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Private Eye as Man off Letters | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

Snakes and frogs are discarded for BASIC and PASCAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camps for Computers | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...staffers and their charges at the nation's newest form of summer retreat: computer camps. There, instead of naming wild flowers and singing One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall, boys and girls ages ten to 18 devise electronic games and learn computer languages like BASIC and PASCAL. At Computer Camp East in East Haddam, Conn., Vit Henisz, 12, articulates the campers' current philosophy: "Time for recreation is forced on us. Computer time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camps for Computers | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...School near Old Windsor, England; capacity enrollment is expected. In the U.S., the cost of the camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camps for Computers | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

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