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...kill her," says the narrator of The Unnamable. "I should have thought of that a bit earlier, before being born." Beckett's own austere, tyrannical mother hounded him and his thoughts; he could not stand to be with her and writhed with guilt when he was away. His succinct comment: "What a relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illuminations of the Grotesque | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

Rather than such straw men, Harrington offers a succinct and eminently readable critique of the existing global structure and its negative effects on Third World economic development. He argues against the prevailing philosophy of a global "trickle down" phenomenon in which continuing expansion of the world market in its present form hypothetically contributes to Third World growth. Instead, he presents a less rosy picture. The built-in gap between the advanced and the less developed economies is so large that free trade between them only generates a still wider gap. The perverted logic of the international economic system dictates that...

Author: By Cliff Sloan, | Title: The Other Three-Fourths | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

...love thee? Let me count the ways." Jon Landau's analysis of the contemporary rock's tendency toward sterile sophistication may not contain any earth-shattering insights, but he does stitch together a number of perceptive comments on the evolution of rock into a very readable and succinct three-page piece. And the fifty-page album of Rolling Stone photographer Annie Leibovitz's finest work provides the kind of pictorial history of rock that only this magazine could. From the first full-page shot of a pensive John Lennon gazing into Leibovitz's lens to a melancholy Keith Richard swathed...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Moss Gathering | 12/15/1977 | See Source »

...panel called the article "succinct and complete," and commended it for having been "presented in an unusual way," an AHA spokesman said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blakeslee Award | 12/2/1977 | See Source »

...member National Assembly, Soares' vote-shopping gambit has run into trouble. As one diplomatic observer put it: "The Socialists got a clear signal that a minority government is not a ma jority government." Adeline Amaro da Costa, deputy leader of the Social Democratic Center party, was more succinct. "We were giving our parties to the government," he said. "It was a kind of floating coalition, in which we submitted to something like alternate adultery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: Scares' Shaky Political Seesaw | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

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