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SOMETHING HAPPENS when you stay too long in the suburbs. Those inclined to harshness see it as a kind of dry rot, a slow and dusty torpor of the soul that accommodates itself all tooeasilyto the relentless affluence of Scarsdale and Grosse Pointe, to a world of shopping malls and...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Updike Unloosed | 1/24/1979 | See Source »

The four leaders landed at Guadeloupe's Pointe-à-Pitre airport within two hours of one another. The arrivals were easygoing: no pomp, bands or greeting ceremonies. At the summit site, the four leaders had identical lodgings: a cozy duplex made up of two units, each with its own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Summit on Cannibal island | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Who can sort out these social mysteries? It has become extremely complicated to be polite in America. There was a time when the upwardly mobile and socially inecure believed as fervently as The Four Hundred that there existed somewhere?in the mind of God, perhaps, or the graven tablets of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

Each gesture unfolds from within, like ripples from a stone cast on the water. The translation of feeling into movement is as effortless as the flow of breath, and as unbroken. For even the shape of the dance's impulse is that of subjective emotional experience; the rhythm moves as...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: The Classic and the Comic | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Serge Obolensky, 87, Russian prince who became a publicist and international socialite; in Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. Scion of a wealthy White Russian family and husband of Czar Alexander II's daughter, the Oxford-educated Obolensky fled his native country after battling Bolsheviks as a guerrilla fighter. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1978 | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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