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...multiply your prayers, I shall not listen Your hands are covered with blood wash, make your selves clean Take your wrongdoing out of my sight Cease to do evil Learn to do good, search for justice help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow." Isaiah...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Homage to Pilgrimage | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...first time in years, John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, 49, was photographed with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, 39, and Wife Linda, 39. The rendezvous took place over a pricey meal (asparagus and fettuccine with wild mushrooms) at Manhattan's ultra-chic Le Cirque restaurant, and may have been nothing more than "simply a friendly lunch," as a McCartney business aide insisted. The McCartneys and Ono were not the coziest of friends when the group was still together, so the event took on the significance of an unscheduled summit meeting. According to eyewitnesses, the diners chatted amiably enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1982 | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

Mildred, 70, a widow living in northern Georgia, fears that reporting the $30 a week she earns baby-sitting will mean the loss of her Social Security benefits. Says she: "If I'm a criminal, then I guess that's what I am. But I don't see what good it would do for me to starve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing Tax Games | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...realizes the outrage of bidding against a rival reporter for photos of carnage, but he does it anyway. He is genuinely disturbed when he realizes the execution of a family has been staged specifically for him. But his preoccupations with his own family, and now with a German widow in Beirut drown out the outside world...

Author: By Susan R. Moffat, | Title: Angst, Ennui, Et Al | 4/6/1982 | See Source »

...love to arrange strange marriages, delighting in such mismatings as an old man with a young girl, an unattractive widow with a youth in his prime, a cripple with a great beauty, a cantor with a deaf woman, a mute with a braggart. Let me tell you about one such 'interesting' union I contrived in Kreshev, which is a town on the river San, that enabled me to be properly abusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wickedness and Wonders | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

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