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...Derek Bok is less orthodox than his predecessor, sir. He believes in Easter without the Passion. Why, there were classes on Good Friday, Ash Monday, and Passover...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Report From Washington | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...wouldn't sneer at Good Friday, Ash Monday, and Passover, Mr. Dunlop. You may not know this, but many fine Catholics voted for the President, and Sammy Davis Jr. is Jewish. Did you know that, Dunlop...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Report From Washington | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...think you're cute, don't you, Dunlop? Did Derek Bok go to church on Easter, Dunlop? Or on Good Griday, Ash Monday, and Passover? A Freedom Seder, perhaps? Or a midnight mass celebrated by a homosexual defrocked Jesuit married to a former nun? Dunlop, I'm afraid you're really up shit creek without a paddle. And you can tell your friends in Hanoi that the President is a merciful man, but his mercies do not endure forever...

Author: By Seth M. Kupferberg, | Title: Report From Washington | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...first find was reported by Greek archaeologists, who for the past six years have been excavating the remains of an important center of the highly advanced Minoan civilization: a city that was buried under a blanket of ash and dust when the volcanic island of Thera (Santorini) erupted in a great explosion about 1500 B.C. Until now, the most important treasures unearthed by the diggers on Thera were several exquisitely beautiful frescoes; they show such tranquil scenes as swallows frolicking amid spring blossoms, two boys playfully boxing, and a man apparently kneeling in worship (TIME, Feb. 28, 1972). But they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light on Lost Epochs | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...never bothers to turn on the lights, and as the early evening fades to night, the walls grow ever-closer to her now inert body. She is dozing on the sofa; the beer three-quarters gone. The ash-tray speckled and dusted with the remnants of four half-finished cigarettes...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

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