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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan has inflation down from 13% to 4%. He reduced interest rates from 21% to 13%. He snatched Grenada from the jaws of the Communists. Yes, this Democrat will vote for Reagan. Nelson C. Singer Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 12, 1984 | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...always been easy to make the case for Robert Frost as one of America's greatest poets. His younger colleague Randall Jarrell tried in the 1950s and ran smack up against the self-created public figure, the "Only Genuine Robert Frost in Captivity": a singer of homely New England scenes, "full of complacent wisdom and cast-iron whimsy." Then, shortly after Frost's death in 1963 at age 88, his friend Lawrance Thompson began publishing a three-volume biography; inadvertently or not, it replaced the cracker-barrel sage with a monster. Thompson piled up a chronicle of "jealousies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mortal Play | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...first of Singer's stories, a fictional character named Dr. Gottlieb was the main character in "The Missing Line," and reasoned that there must be a rational explanation for even the most mysterious events...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Nobel Author Singer Speaks At Sanders | 11/6/1984 | See Source »

...second story Singer read. "A Piece Of Advice," was a more serious and religious piece that featured a man trying to control his wild temper. The man learned from a Hasidic holy man to flatter even those people he really wanted to insult...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Nobel Author Singer Speaks At Sanders | 11/6/1984 | See Source »

...moral of the story, said Singer is "don't listen so much to your emotions; freewill is expressed best in deeds not in feelings...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: Nobel Author Singer Speaks At Sanders | 11/6/1984 | See Source »

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