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TIME Magazine masthead page JUNE 8, 1987 Vol. 129 No. 23 Founders: BRITON HADDEN 1898-1929 HENRY R. LUCE 1898-1967 Editor- in- Chief: Henry Anatole Grunwald Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: J. Richard Munro President and Chief Operating Officer: N. J. Nicholas Jr. Chairman of the Executive Committee: Ralph P. Davidson Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...
...Glenn Gould Legacy, Vol...
Finding the Center moves away from the invective of the Muslim book and restores to his nonfiction the considerable sympathy and understanding for characters that Naipaul has shown in his ten novels. Indeed, Naipaul calls the two prose works that make up this new vol ume "personal narrative pieces" rather than essays, and the term seems correct. His emphasis in both falls not on report age but on the process of shaping experiences into a coherent story, of creating a tale, in essence, in order to get at a truth...
...legal points and statistics are attributed to private conversations, but the word "motherfucker" gets the lengthy note. "For an interesting discussion of the psychological implications of the expression 'motherfucker' (and comparable insults in sixty-six languages) see Edgar A. Gregerson, "Sexual Linguistics," Annals New York Academy of Science. Vol 327 (Language, Sex, and Gender...
Mann-Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit." Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...