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Last week he concluded on a high note eight years as head of Time Inc.'s magazine division. Under his aegis that segment of the company experienced remarkable growth. MONEY, PEOPLE and DISCOVER were launched, LIFE was reborn, and Time Inc.'s magazine revenues tripled, to $1 billion. Of those achievements, Keylor is proudest of the successful birth of PEOPLE, which now has a circulation of 2.3 million. Says he: "When we set out to launch PEOPLE nothing like it had ever been tried before. You get a much greater sense of pride when you're breaking...
Throughout this period, Uspensky continued his work on the dictionary, expanding the book to include the language of over 200 social groups within the Soviet Union. Twenty years after he made the first note, Uspensky (whose work is now funded by a federal grant), has collected more than 30,000 words. Seventyfive per cent of them have never been registered in any dictionary despite the fact that they are in everyday usage. He hopes to publish his work next year. "The authorities want to purify the language, to make it like distilled water," he says. "But no language can exist...
Your Essay "The Endless Rediscovery of the Wheel" [Dec. 15] strikes an oddly optimistic note at the end. I fear we've lost far more of our cultural traditions than we can hope to rediscover. Too much of the social glue-church, family, local community-that used to hold our psyches intact has been dissolved...
...finish operation. He also had the backing of Kansas Senator Robert Dole, who sent a map of the U.S. to Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt, one of Reagan's closest advisers, that was marked with states from which Cabinet members had already been picked. Wrote Dole in an accompanying note: "Paul, this blank space is called the Midwest...
...covered the Warren Court while it handed down many of its most revolutionary rulings. Lewis recalls sending then-Solicitor General Archibald Cox '34 a note during the famed Reynolds v. Sims case, in which the one man-one vote laws were upheld, saying, "How does it feel being at the second constitutional convention...