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...that God would forgive him. The female voice of the good angel floats down from a microphone hidden high in the rafters, while the male voice of the evil spirit, always urging Faustus along the path of godlessness, rises from beneath the set. Lucifer has won. Faustus will roast in hell forever and taste the everlasting effect of his daring to take the path which seemed so completely to lead to the satisfaction of his yearnings...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Unworldly Knowledge | 2/12/1981 | See Source »

...Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the bankers reconvened in the Secretary's conference room on the third floor of the Treasury Building. For the next nine hours they negotiated over the method for transferring the assets to Iran, while consuming gallons of coffee along with chicken salad and roast beef sandwiches from the Capitol Hill Deli. Meanwhile, telephone and telex lines were kept open round the world. Explained one banker: "All this had to be communicated periodically by telex to the Iranians to make sure that it was O.K. We conveyed each document as we concluded it." Government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Hostages: How the Bankers Did It | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...fixture in 1980 America that there is even a stop-go one on the market, with flashing red and green lights to indicate when it is time to take another bite. Some Fiji Islanders, according to Rudofsky, eat everyday fare with their fingers and reserve forks for formal dishes roast of human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Leonardo Had It Wrong | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...Yardling, Oberg, a three time Connecticut State High School wrestling champion, decided to devote himself to rugby. "It offers a different outlook on sport," he said. "Rugby's casual, without any pressure from a coach or alumni. The social aspect (weekend roadtrips to away games, the annual "pig roast," and kegs after games) almost equals the competitive element," Oberg adds; "My rugby experience has reallybeen the people met and the friendships made...

Author: By William A. Danoff, | Title: Keith Oberg | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...comprehensive, down-to-earth guide to French family cooking that is both witty and percipient. Her French Cuisine for All (Doubleday; $19.95), meticulously edited for the American cook, covers the Gallic spectrum from country soups and dandelion salad to such exotica as iced caviar-flavored consommé and roast loin of young wild boar (frozen joints of European boar are available at specialty stores in some U.S. cities). Bertholle's recipes for chocolate cakes are guaranteed to leave her pages stained with fudgy fingerprints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Well-Laden Table of Cookbooks | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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