Word: sagas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such a sweeping, unresolved saga be captured in fiction? In her eight previous novels, Nadine Gordimer has offered some excellent answers. She has fused her native land's agonies and contradictions into intense portraits of ordinary lives: that of a reactionary but troubled landowner (The Conservationist), for example, or of a white housewife caught up in the melee of a successful black revolution (July's People). A Sport of Nature is no less detailed and gripping than its predecessors, but its reach is more ambitious: a panoramic view not only of what has already taken place in South Africa...
TIME has followed the Sakharov saga since 1961, when the man who helped develop the Soviet H-bomb went on record opposing atmospheric testing of a 100-megaton weapon. In February 1977 a cover story focused on his pivotal role in organizing Soviet human-rights campaigners. And last October TIME featured excerpts from Alone Together, the autobiography of Bonner. Says Talbott of Sakharov's views in this week's issue: "His arms-control advice could hardly be more timely. It comes just as the negotiations in Geneva are showing their first serious signs of progress since the debacle at Reykjavik...
...saga of Jonathan Pollard the spy began in the spring of 1984, when he first met Colonel Aviam Sella, one of Israel's best-known younger military officers, through a mutual acquaintance. The Israeli colonel at the time was taking a course in computer engineering at New York University. Pollard offered to spy for the Israelis and soon began to steal documents from the Naval Investigative Service in Suitland, Md., where he worked. On a trip to Paris that fall, he met Yosef Yagur, scientific attache at the Israeli consulate in New York City, and Rafi Eitan, the former deputy...
...saga of the Kroh brothers shows how fast fortunes can turn in the real estate business. During the past five years, they had nearly tripled their firm's holdings, from 5.3 million sq. ft. of property to 14.3 million sq. ft. The company was transformed from a family-run Kansas City operation into a national firm with 458 employees, assets of $197.4 million and investments in 13 states. Credit came easily: recognizing the company's record of success, banks extended Kroh Development $39 million in unsecured loans...
Adulation and awards were never a problem. She copped a Grammy as Best New Artist in 1973. Her 1979 LP, The Rose, went platinum. In 1983 she even found a perch on the best-seller lists with her children's book The Saga of Baby Divine. But what, these days, becomes a legend most? The one little item that eluded Bette Midler: movie stardom. Her galvanizing turn in The Rose, as a soulful thrush on the high wire of drugs, sex and rock 'n' roll, earned the actress raves and an Oscar nomination and . . . precisely no film offers. Her next...