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...could have become the hero of the floods." VIT KAHLE, Prague Zoo spokesman, lamenting the death by exhaustion of Gaston, a seal who escaped his enclosure as flood waters rose and swam 300 km before expiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...newest form of summer retreat: computer camps. There, instead of naming wild flowers and singing One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall, boys and girls ages ten to 18 devise electronic games and learn computer languages like BASIC and PASCAL. At Computer Camp East in East Haddam, Conn., Vit Henisz, 12, articulates the campers' current philosophy: "Time for recreation is forced on us. Computer time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Camps for Computers | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Here ve got new book abot mine debentures vit de beauriful, vunderful English langwitch. You remamber mebbe The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1937? The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N from 1959? Now is mekink vun book from de odder two. (Only de whole kitten cadoodle is new becawss by Rosten is so much rewridink.) Absolutel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Void Symphony | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...wouldn't even kill an ant," was the way Turks described Biilent Ecevit, 49, their Premier. His biographer called him a "romantic, artistic, even mystical man." The son of a respected painter, Ecevit (pronounced Edge-a-vit) is a translator of the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound into Turkish and a poet in his own right. In fact, one of his poems is about the ambivalent attraction between Greeks and Turks: "No matter that we are not of the same racial blood;/ The wild spirit flowing in our veins is the same./ We have cursed each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Ecevit: The Poet Premier | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...Days is hardly the thing to see for ideological inspiration. It is a quiet, sentimental little love story that happens to be set against a university background, a sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical of the entire film. Activists will be angry that Ciampi is obviously more interested in passion than politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Strange Bedfellows | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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