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What I strive for and to a degree achieve as a craftsman wood turner has its roots in the idea expressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This feeling cannot be abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 12, 1982 | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...fair test of the opera's stage worthiness. At Eszterháza, Haydn could call on a large cast of silent extras to provide plenty of spectacle, and the theater's sophisticated stage machinery-which could transform settings from a pleasant garden to an enchanted wood or a glorious hall-was expected to carry a good deal of the dramatic load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Are Haydn Operas Coming Back? | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Auditorium live for several seconds longer. Indoors, the music lovers are puzzled by the sudden heat. Their bewilderment is fleeting: the blast wave arrives just as the brightness of the mile-wide fireball peaks. Those who do not die beneath collapsing walls are probably killed by rocketing shards of wood and glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scenario of Destruction | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...transaction." Negotiator Jack Pucell talked to one couple who had been ashamed of being unable to pay anything last year. Says he: "He's finally landed a job, and although he has had it only three months, they insist on paying the full cost." Another family installed a wood stove to cut utility bills so that they could pay more tuition. Says Savella: "Negotiated tuition generates a level of commitment we could never get with fixed tuition." At week's end parents had pledged more than $600,000, for an increase of 10% over this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pay-What-You-Can Plan | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

...town of Kyle, where she lives in a three-bedroom house with three children, two sisters, and her sisters' three children. Unlike her grandparents. Vine Mae has central heating, running water, and a telephone. But she is unemployed, and away from the rural areas where people fill time chopping wood, hauling water and preparing for winter. Her only pastime is drinking...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: The Skin of the Apple | 3/26/1982 | See Source »

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