Word: readers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighborhood not far from Istanbul's Galata Tower, the small group of worshipers assembled for the 8 a.m. Sabbath service last Saturday at Neve Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...
...campus team called "Bok's Jocks." One day six years ago, he sank a running left-handed hook shot and decided that was the moment to retire forever. He still plays a sharp game of tennis two or three times a week. He is also, of course, a heavy reader. (Current favorites include Thucydides and some of "Conrad's more obscure works...
...clever or, worse, brilliant indicate that the end is near. Soon Mr. Brilliant will be labeled a "loose cannon" and transmute himself into an adviser, the Washington version of self-imposed exile. In business journalism, the phrase "one of the most respected managers in his field" informs knowing readers that envy is unnecessary -- the respected manager is on the way out. Before long, there will be hints that his managerial ferocity is insufficient, and perhaps a profile mentioning that he drinks decaffeinated coffee, collects porcelain miniatures or loves San Francisco. This means that in a week he will be "leaving...
...Careful readers of our American Scene section will have noticed that pieces by Gregory Jaynes appear more often than those by anyone else. This week's story, about a musical recital in the ranching community of Choteau, Mont., is Associate Editor Jaynes' 44th for the section. Like many others, the idea came from one of his favorite sources, a reader. A woman from Montana wrote to TIME about a nearby piano teacher with an interesting clientele...
...wrote in an editorial: "It is almost as though the Twentieth Century itself has come to a sudden, violent, and premature end." He was a genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin has suggested, Hemingway sent postcards back home: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here." He worked hard at his writing, and yet the interval...