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Only someone who is certifiable would put his name on a prefix column for the Nobel Prize in Literature: but then a fail without football drives men to desperation Would you have picked Icelander Halldor Lawness in '55' Know any couplets by Giosue Carducci '06 Put 'em o n postcard and send 'em in Or how about recent history. Can you even name a bookstore, which carries two books by Vicent Aleixandre '77' In fact. If you knew anything at all about Elias Canetti '81 before last year and your name isn't Susan Sontag...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Alfred Stakes | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...which most ABLE students missed because of exam period--ABLE sent a large contingent to a local appearance of Vice President George Bush, who has been prominent in Reagan Administration efforts to dismantle the regulations that have insured many rights of the disabled. ABLE has also led a postcard drive to urge the U.S. Senate to protect rights of the disabled, although Kronick says that the group, which consists of about eight active members lobbying for a University community of about 40, "doesn't have the manpower to table in all of the houses...

Author: By Adam S. Cohen and Errol T. Louis, S | Title: Minority Groups Now Use Subtler Tactics | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...stay in proportion with his furnishings. Most of these hang on the walls: a chain of beads, a pair of sunglasses, snapshots of his three children. He has copied William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" by hand and mounted it with cellophane tape. There is a picture postcard of a sailboat at sunset below what Sy calls his "mind stimulators," words of advice on how best to study: SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, REVIEW, RECITE. Between the postcard and the sunglasses lies a poetic formula: "You imagine what you desire/ You will what you imagine/ You create what you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Prisoner | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...lined with whitewashed plátano trees, located about 120 miles southeast of Buenos Aires. The sons of two local families were on garrison duty in the Falklands. Renato E. Riva, editor of the town weekly Here Is Ranchos, said that "everyone knows when the families receive letters or a postcard." Fund raising for the war effort in Ranchos was proceeding welL The local rural agricultural society had collected more than $200,000; a local radio station held a 48-hour telethon two weeks ago and raised $36,000. According to Riva, the town's patriotism "has never been higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Explosions and Breakthroughs | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley's books was The Fan, the story of a deranged youth who stalks an actress. Inside was an unmailed postcard with portraits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan on one side. On the reverse was a bizarre message to Actress Jodie Foster, 19, with whom Hinckley was infatuated: "Dear Jodie, Don't they make a darling couple? Nancy is downright sexy. One day you and I will occupy the White...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Loser of a One-Man Race | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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