Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Myth of God Incarnate [Aug. 15] is another jaded attempt to season Jesus to the palate of current sophistry. Editing the Bible according to what one chooses to accept may be popular, but cannot pretend to integrity of scholarship...
Bravo! I enjoyed Lance Morrow's Essay "An Elegy for the New Left" [Aug. 15] very much. While showing the New Left reduced to ashes he is wise enough to see that it may well rise again, as did the phoenix. I was born a few years too, late to participate in the social movements of the '60s. But I, and others born in the mid-'50s, watched and learned much in those developing years. Many of us have adopted the value system that then flourished and have tried to guide our lives...
...response to your article "Racial Time Bomb" [Aug. 8]: Swedes are naturally a very proud people. You might also call us an obstinate and even boring people, but we have with some help made our native country what it is today-a paradise...
President Carter has struck to the root of one debilitating problem by proposing his "profamily, pro-work" welfare reform bill, which aims to get people off the dole and encourage them to work (TIME, Aug. 15). By offering cash grants to the so-called working poor, it encourages underclass fathers to stay in the home instead of leaving so that their families can collect welfare. The plan offers tax incentives for those who find jobs in the private sector instead of public service. For those who cannot, it proposes to create 1.4 million positions in training programs and in service...
...last erupted in 1945. Since then, magma, or semimolten rock from the mantle surrounding the earth's core, had been slowly and quietly rising through cracks under the peak of the mountain, building up tremendous pressures and triggering repeated earth tremors that rocked Hokkaido. Finally, on Aug. 7, the 725-meter (2,400-ft.) Usu awakened with a roar like that of a bomb. A huge black cloud soared to a height of 12,000 meters (39,000 ft.). A dense shower of gray ash and chunks of porous, rock-like pumice poured out of the cloud...