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Oskar's history is the history of Germany during The War. Oskar lived in Danzig where he watched the Nazis come and go, the Jews live and die, the city stand and fall, his family shrink and grow. His story is about the destruction of Germany by a force that had proposed to make the Germans the mightiest race on Earth and how the Germans and the world learned to accept that destruction and drum on. Oskar is a little bit mad and Oskar's history is a little...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: The World According to Oskar | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...others by command." It is fortunate for author and reader that benignity is a minor component of this collection. The central theses of Philosophy and Public Policy prove that throughout a career of combat, Sidney Hook's hackles and gorge have always risen to the occasion. Those who shrink from confrontation should stay clear of such reactive power. Only thinkers need apply. For them, as Alfred North Whitehead observed, "a clash of doctrines is not a disaster. It is an opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Gorge | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...showing improvement within 48 to 72 hours and a 50% reduction in the size of their tumors within three to four weeks after IF therapy. One patient with myeloma received interferon for three months with no apparent effect. But one month after the treatment ended, his tumor began to shrink. Presumably IF had had a delayed effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big IF in Cancer | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

Essentially, Carter is opting for more inflation now in the hope of less inflation later. The Administration makes two arguments: 1) the extra revenues from the gas fee will shrink inflationary

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Carter vs. Inflation | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

Perhaps too much is expected of television. Because it can shrink the world with a satellite signal, people tend to think of it as a total journalistic service. "We are not," says Chancellor. "We could be on three hours a night and could not produce a Russell Baker column or an Art Buchwald piece or a Jeff MacNelly cartoon. Television is good at the transmission of experience. Print is better at the transmission of facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Face of TV News | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

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