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...Helms began a correspondence with the exiled novelist in 1973, which Solzhenitsyn carried on, Helms says, "at a little Russian typewriter with scratch-outs, just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To the Right, March!: Jesse Helms | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...tell an arm twist from a back scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking the Great Persuader | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

...will not mingle with "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard." For once, Harvard was on the receiving end of a rejection letter this year instead of the other way around. Presidential deputy assistant Joseph W. Canzeri, an aide to Deaver, called Bok on May 1 with Reagan's answer: no. Scratch Reagan, write in--again--Watson...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: It's Ronnie!... Er, Tom | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...weeks before his thesis was due, he had nothing. No data, no results, no conclusion. After eleven months of setting up experiments, preparing solutions and media, learning techniques and adjusting protocols, it was as if he were starting from scratch. "It's easy to give up unless you really believe it's what you want to do," says Se-jin Lee of his biochemistry research experience...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: When It Works, It Really Works | 6/4/1981 | See Source »

...great writer." Literary Critic Bertrand Poirot-Delpech rates him with Léon Blum and De Gaulle as the most literary of French politicians: "Each phrase of Mitterrand, even spoken, bears the mark of someone who has never ceased to read the great writers, to scribble, to scratch out and, in short, to dream with words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitterrand on Mitterrand | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

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