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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civilization ? had lost a major hero. "Einstein was the symbol of learning generation," and explains wisdom for Golden, my who wrote this week's cover story on the new wave of interest in Einstein as followers celebrate the centennial of his birth. "He is the scientist of our age, but he is also remembered for his humanity, his personal style and his political and social thinking. You might say he is a figure for all of space and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

Every girl learns at a very young age that it is wrong to have sexual intercourse with a man without being married to him. This is in violation of one of the rules of society. I hope Lee Marvin [Jan. 15] doesn't have to pay that woman any money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1979 | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...SAVAK's future: Those of us who have reached retirement age will be retired. Those who are not needed or who have bad records will be let go. Others will be transferred to other organizations or to the Prime Minister's office. Some will go to the new National Intelligence Center. It will be worse for the younger agents. They have not been working long enough to prove themselves; yet they are blamed in all the bad publicity, and they can do nothing about it. Now they will lose their salaries. Many of us will have problems making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SAVAK: Like the CIA | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...film say that Paul Schrader was born in Grand Rapids, where Hardcore's modest, acutely observed opening sequences are set. They also tell us he was raised in the stern Calvinist tradition that sustains the heroic father figure (George C. Scott) as he searches for his runaway teen-age daughter. The girl has disappeared into the demimonde of pornographic film production in California, with its attendant agonies of drug addiction and prostitution. Schrader's feeling for the small-town society and values of his youth is respectful, never patronizing. There is an authenticity in his visualizations of family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Porn Scorned | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

...works with family members to abduct converts and subject them to nonstop ranting by teams of operatives until they renounce their new faith. Warning that "there is a conspiracy to turn [the U.S.] into a totalitarian state," he stated that he has personally deprogrammed 1,600 people, ranging in age from 13 to 81. In a forthcoming Playboy interview, Patrick includes First Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, a neoPentecostal "memory healer," on his list of cult leaders who bear watching. Another witness, Author Flo Conway, stated that deprogramming should be "recognized as a new and valuable form of mental health therapy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cult Wars on Capitol Hill | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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