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...religious ceremonies and receive financial support through government-collected taxes. But the new constitution makes no mention whatsoever of the rights of churches. Many East German Protestants fear that Ulbricht will use this ambiguity as a lever to force them to break away entirely from their West German brethren, thus severing the last major formal link between the two Germanys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Laws to Fit the Land | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...Look!" he tells his Negro brethren. "Look what you've made. Look how beautiful it is. You made it out of adversity. Be proud of it!" He is talking about their cultural heritage, and when he celebrates it in dance, it is something to be proud of. In Revelations, a searingly personal statement based on Negro spirituals, his dancers evoke all the yearning, despair, anger and, finally, bright hope of a people who will overcome. Ailey already has; such powerful, nonethnic dances as his Feast of Ashes and Ariadne mark him as one of the most richly gifted talents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: The Great Leap Forward | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

Nothing Printable. North Korea has certainly done its best to keep its brethren in the South shivering. Late in 1966, Premier Kim II Sung launched a program of guerrilla subversion designed to disrupt the South and humiliate the U.S. at every turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...plot and the most commonly accepted interpretations of the characters, action and meaning of the work. In effect, they are a commercialized version of the old fraternity files of crib sheets on courses, compiled by students who attended class regularly and took notes for their less conscientious brethren. Probably the most successful of the pony stables in attracting academic talent is Educational Research Associates Inc.,* a West Pittston, Pa., firm headed by former High School Teacher Paul Stark. He argues that students do need up-to-date, soundly based guides because "many teachers have not introduced a new thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Riding the Ponies | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...insistence on ritual observance as old-fashioned and untenable. In an era of ecumenism, Orthodoxy tends to be proudly self-sufficient, uninterested in religious dialogue with Reform and Conservative Jews, much less with Christianity. Moreover, Orthodoxy has its own internal struggles; many Hasidic Jews regard their more modern Orthodox brethren as heretics and resent any effort to abandon the cultural traditions of Old Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judaism: Orthodoxy's New Look | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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