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...Woolf's, are also vibrant with immediacy, intimacy and often indiscretion ("Why," she asks, "is it so pleasant to damn one's friends?"). With her aristocratic sense of decorum she may have felt that their very privacy was what made them unpublishable. If so, she failed to reckon on this age's voracious, ransacking appetite for all that is private in a writer's life. As significant as her novels may be in the canon of modernist fiction, what really makes her writing live today-and what largely accounts for the current Virginia Woolf boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Values | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...special thing about this season's version of Harvard football is the specialty squad. If football and war are the ultimate team games, the Crimson boasts quite an infantry--one the Bulldogs will have to reckon with come Saturday...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Special Specialty Squad | 11/19/1980 | See Source »

Everything seemed set a week ago. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Majlis, was sure he had enough support to put the deal to a vote. Back in Washington even the most skeptical officials were optimistic. But they, like Rafsanjani himself, neglected to reckon with the ingenuity of Iran's diehards ?left-leaning Muslims and mullahs who opposed any compromise whatsoever with "the Great Satan America." On Thursday, the day set for the Majlis debate, about 70 deputies stayed home or refused to take their seats, preventing a quorum and thus blocking a vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Hope for the Hostages | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

Hiatt said he expects attempts to modify the proposition. "If they are in the intersts of the bill, I'm sure a compromise can be worked out, but if they are attempts to frustrate its basic intent, the legislature will have to reckon with us and the voters," he said...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and Wendy L. Wall, S | Title: Voters Handily Pass Proposition 2 1/2 | 11/5/1980 | See Source »

...agreements for access to military facilities in Kenya, Somalia and Oman; it also has close ties with Egypt and is building up its Indian Ocean fleet. That network is intended to counter the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and South Yemen. Now U.S. military planners may have to reckon with Moscow's closer Syrian connection as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Gulf Explode? | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

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