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...group of stories under the rubric "Canadians Abroad" finds Gallant's characters pursuing an elusive freedom in Europe. A young woman seeks love on the French Riviera with the most improbable of romantic figures, a retired inspector of prisons in one of Britain's former Asian colonies. When she leaves him she takes up with a fellow "in terrible trouble -- back taxes, ex- wife seizing his salary." A pair of perpetual expatriates seem doomed to misadventure: they pile up debts; they are ostracized by fellow Ca- nadian exiles; they have rows with hotel managers, and their children throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exiles Home Truths: By Mavis Gallant | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

...recoil in horror. Despite his deadly earnest attempt, Rothenberg doesn't really help us in the quest for definition. Grouping as disparate politicians as North Carolina's Gov. James Hunt (a conservative in disguise). Timothy Wirth (a high-techie), and former California Gov. Jerry Brown (a flake) under the rubric of neoliberalism only confirms the impression that the label is of use solely to the self-serving cognoscenti...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: SummerBooksSummerBooksSum | 8/10/1984 | See Source »

...course was then revised to reflect more current reading and to provide more emphasis on analysis; it emphasizes the qualities that I am suggesting fall under the rubric of learning how to learn...

Author: By Dean K. Whitla, | Title: Learning how to learn | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...center also tries to target other kinds of Cambridge groups. For instance, the center's "Arts for Life" program organizes artistic performances in Cambridge's senior citizen housing projects and nursing homes. It was under the rubric of this group that the center brought an orchestra to Mary Lamont's apartment complex...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Arts Center Caters to New Audiences | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

...TIME included a section that was called Imaginary Interviews, in which celebrities of the day, like Margot Asquith or Princess Yolanda of Italy, were made to provide clever explanations of why they were in the news that week. By 1926, this not entirely successful experiment had acquired the rubric People, but it was only in 1927 that the People section began reporting what real people really said and did. "Names make news, " the section announced, "and last week the following people made the following news. "Herewith a sampler from the 56 years since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

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