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...agents of the Public Security Bureau seemed intent on terrorizing their victim, and they succeeded. It was 1 a.m. when they marched into Peking's sprawling Friendship Hotel, where many foreigners working in China live. The police told room clerks to awaken American Teacher Lisa Wichser, 29, and tell her that an urgent telegram had arrived for her. When the petite, sandy-haired and somewhat sleepy Wichser appeared to claim it, she was handcuffed and hustled without explanation into a police car. Technically, at least, the graduate student from Noblesville, Ind., had not been arrested. She was merely being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Fear of Foreigners | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...greed and reaction at every turn. Only by raising voices of protest against all injustice and malevolence and misguidedness will the nation return to its true ideals. At the polls in November and through the mounting criticism of the Administration, we can revive those American dreams worth fulfilling, and awaken from the bastard dream of Reaganism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Reagan Inversion | 6/10/1982 | See Source »

...Testament and New, the Bible can be a profoundly radical document. That fact lay at the base of King's movement, it has allowed the Latin American church to awaken as a social force, and it accounts for the potential beneficial impact of a committed Christian movement. Though it has had vastly more impact on Western history than any other book more Harvard students have delved into the Ec 10 workbook than the Bible. When you read it, or re-read it, consider the Old Testament as first and foremost the story of God's intervention to help free...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Homage to Pilgrimage | 4/24/1982 | See Source »

...awaken the next day to find all the streets leading to the center of town closed off with barbed wire, the type often used to fence confiscated land in preparation for the establishment of a settlement. An army jeep with a loudspeaker announces a curfew: no one is to step outside his home for 48 hours. A whole town seems to be placed in solitary confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Hassle People at Whim | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...failure as a drama of ideas. The verdict of the fashionmonger on Agnes of God as a potential trend-setter should be negative. There may yet be life in the psycho-drama form, but it wants a Prince Charming, not this unevenly constructed work, to make it awaken...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Cloistered View | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

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