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...areas stand out. In one of these residential neighborhoods, I had dinner with a professor at a Calcutta institute for managerial studies. He talked of the frustrations of working to improve health and sanitation conditions, the impracticability of any attempts at concerted policies, and the tight pinch of a runaway inflation rate on all but the wealthiest members of the country's industrial establishment. "When we graduated from college, we thought that our purpose was to do something worthwhile for out nation," he told me. "Now, I would just tell my son to try to support and take care...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: East And West The Search For Eternal India | 9/18/1981 | See Source »

...introduce a bill to limit the power of fedral courts-up to, but not including, the Supreme Court-to order busing. That would bring up a whole new issue for the New Right: whether to concentrate on restricting the power of courts, which conservatives are convinced are the runaway enforcers of secular humanism, to rule on social issues or whether to focus on the issues themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking Strategy on Social Issues | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...cube (using logic rather than math), as well as a chapter on "Cube Maintenance" (to loosen a stiff cube, "put a blob of Vaseline on the mechanism"). With 250,000 copies of the cubist's book in print, a Penguin executive marvels: "It's the biggest, runaway, immediate success we have had since we published Lady Chatterley's Lover in paperback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1981 | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...runaway success of The Official Preppy Handbook (more than 1 million copies sold) proved that the American preppie is a marketable commodity. Now three young men from the suburbs around Louisville are turning the prep school image into a profitable business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When in Need, Rent a Preppie | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...Superman," whispers the little kid sitting next to you as popcorn butter drips from his chin to his dungarees. But on the screen, the Man of Steel is neither stopping a runaway train, nor punching out bank robbers. He's in bed with a gorgeous woman, worrying about things that have nothing to do with truth, justice, or the American way. Superman II is more than just another adventure for our favorite hero. In addition to saving the planet, and perhaps the universe, he confronts his own past, throws a dinner party for two at his North Pole bungalow...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Look! In the Motel! It's... | 6/30/1981 | See Source »

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