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...another story. Schubert feels that his composing and orchestration have improved markedly over the past year. "I think I've reached the stage where I might look back someday and think of a piece as young, but never as bad. I won't write anything I'll really regret anymore," he says. He sees in this year's Pudding score a new maturity, a new sophistication...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: A Little Fame Every Day | 2/18/1981 | See Source »

...exception of Rose Kennedy, 90, who was informed early Wednesday, and a few intimates, no one expected the announcement they were to issue 24 hours after Ronald Reagan took office. After 22 years, the couple had decided "to terminate" their marriage, as the brief statement put it, "with regret yet with respect and consideration for each other." No mention was made of where or when divorce papers would be riled or who would have legal custody of Patrick, 13, who lives with his father (Kara, 20. and Edward Jr., 19. are legally adults). Such matters, said the statement, "we intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...Carters leave the White House with regret and head home

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Enjoyed Living in This House | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...steward moved in to clear the table. A telephone call came for the President. He took it by the window, turning the chair around so that he could gaze out on the lawn as he listened. His caring for the White House was palpable. The ambitious, driven man clearly regretted leaving the place. And his regret somehow gave credence to an astonishing conversation that he had with one of his senior aides shortly after the election. The President asked if it were possible to install a loyalist as head of the Democratic National Committee so that Carter could maintain some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Enjoyed Living in This House | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned 40 copies of Values Clarifications, a textbook, as a show of support for a school board that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Growing Battle of the Books | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

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