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...example, William Faulkner was loitering about his home town of Oxford, Miss., being called "Count-no-count" by derisive neighbors for his aloof artiness. During the late '20s and early '30s he produced a series of novels that amounted, one by one, to an epic saga of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a sum greater than the number of its parts. Though TIME published a cover story on Faulkner in 1939, several years had passed since his greatest books were written and several years more were to pass before his total work could be accurately reckoned...
...year saga is a collage of the most dismal events in Polish history, including invasions by Tatars, Cossacks and Turks; partitioning by Russia, Austria and Germany; and the Nazi occupation during World War II. Michener attempts to impose an artificial symmetry upon these events by telling the stories of three fictional families who do battle through the centuries against the country's successive despoilers. Each family represents a different stratum of society. The Lubonskis are nobles, the Bukowskis are members of the gentry, and the Buks are peasants. To keep the scions of these families rushing forth to affront...
...Apple's sales will increase 50% next year, to $ 1.5 billion, and profits will climb 45%, to $ 145 million. But those predictions are based on success for the Macintosh and better sales for the Lisa. Apple clearly has a difficult task ahead as it tries to continue its saga as the fastest-growing company in American history. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Michael Moritz/San Francisco
...TYGIEL takes himself too seriously on occasion, at least he does it with a good heart. Here is a man, you are certain soon into the book, who has been weaned on old piles of Sporting News and stickball in the night, and you are sure this important saga is safe in his understanding hands. A cherished period in baseball, for both those who can recall it from personal experience and those less fortunate who remember it only from the worn pages of the record books, is brought back to life. The roll-call of greats that parade through Tygiel...
...real warning to be derived from the saga of flight 007 is the need for renewed and continuous efforts at peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union. Probably we will never know for sure why the Korean airliner strayed off course, nor whether the Soviets attempted through non-lethal means to make the jet land or change course. But we do know--or have been violently reminded--how paranoid the Soviets are about defense. Because of its callous act, the USSR risks the wrath of the rest of the world and, more importantly, significant setbacks in its geopolitical strategy. Such...