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Gradually, this vision moved beyond the personal and rippled out toward the cosmic. His affection for a young Indian led to a fascination with the country and to two long stays on the subcontinent. An affair with an Egyptian tram conductor taught him something else about the tenuous meetings of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passages of a Buried Life | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

It's been seven or eight years since that hardy band of former 'Poonies and their associates brought out their satiric vehicle, and it has served them quite well. Today they have fancy offices on Madison Avenue, plush brown carpet and lots of smoked glass (a/k/a/ executive hip) and like...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: College the Way It Should Have Been | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

Thus the world learned, in prose and tone that often seemed straight from a Monty Python satiric sketch, that Les ley Brown is a pretty woman of 5 ft. 5 in., who wears her brownish hair in a pageboy cut. In her turquoise-blue hospital room, she often lounges in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

MOLIERE'S PLAYS are masterpieces of satiric comedy which mercilessly debunk the fraudulent and bogus in society, with true love emerging as the victor over all the social conventions which oppose it.

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: 'Invalid' Alive and Fairly Well | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

Both history and the river set the Egyptian apart from the desert Arabs, who are Semites. By contrast, a Hamitic strain prevails in the blood of Egypt's river people. Outsiders often have difficulty distinguishing a Syrian from a Jordanian, or either from a Lebanese. But an Egyptian stands out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: The Gift of the River Nile | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

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