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...Mother Teresa of Calcutta should commit murder, any court might weigh her amazing life's labor against the evil of the one deed. The murder would be the exception in a life that otherwise displayed merit and extravagantly claimed mercy. But Jack Abbott's vividly ranting book, brutal and brutalized, should have made the jury wonder which was more characteristic of the man: literature or murder. In a long and essentially tragic perspective (in which all consequences are endured, all debts paid), literature performs its redemptions. Mailer's formula is a shallow little mechanism. "Culture is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Poetic License to Kill | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Mark Rogers' selection of life under the Kremlin with the right to oppose such tyranny is the choice of cancer with the freedom to commit suicide. Alexander J. Hardy Northridge, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Solidarity Crushed | 1/18/1982 | See Source »

...Defensively, we're fine...we did a nice job," Kleinfelder commented. Throughout the game, Harvard had no difficulty forcing many turnovers. But for the most part, Harvard didn't capitalize and ended up turning the ball over more than the Eagles did. The contest saw the Crimson commit 30 turnovers, resulting from traveling penalties, double dribbling, offensive fouls and erratic and sloppy passing execution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.C. Nips Women Hoopsters, 42-40; Cagers' Season Record Drops to 1-13 | 1/15/1982 | See Source »

...world simply cannot stand by and permit the Soviet Union to commit this act with impunity . . . Neither the United States nor any other nation can continue to do business as usual with the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sanctions as a Symbol | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...much more blood should flow in Poland, how many more people should be persecuted, how many more hopes should be destroyed, until the Western governments understand their mistake? When will they understand that their indifference to the Polish tragedy gives the Soviet totalitarianism full liberty to commit the next crimes? When will they realize that after Budapest, Prague, Kabul and Warsaw, sooner or later the tanks will roll into West Berlin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Solidarity With Solidarnoii | 1/7/1982 | See Source »

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