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Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Tears, but No Comfort | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

The TV debates may be bad. But the way in which Babbitt cast aspersions on the debates was significant--he said "the League of Women Voters" as though those words were a put-down in and of themselves. He used the group as an adjective to signify weak and laughable...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Babbitt and the Gov Jocks | 4/6/1989 | See Source »

YET what is perhaps most disturbing about the University's upcoming tuition hike is the continuing precedent it sets. Since many colleges follow the University's lead in tuition pricing, Harvard should take special care to hold its prices down. Indeed, in the past several years, Harvard and many of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Same Old Story | 3/15/1989 | See Source »

Barbara Bush knows that the two-mile move from the Vice President's 1893 Victorian mansion on Embassy Row to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is more than a change of Zip Codes. As she puts color-coded stickers on the furniture and pictures to signify what goes, what stays and what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Silver Fox | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

If Derwinski can't give satisfactory answers, he should be disqualified from service in Bush's cabinet. Even if he isn't anti-Semitic, an inability to explain his silence would signify that he condones others' anti-Semitism. This is almost as reprehensible.

Author: By Neil A. Copper, | Title: Dump Derwinski | 1/6/1989 | See Source »

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