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Word: buts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The powerful element of fantasy in Space Invaders is the focus at which the computer technicians, the toy manufacturers and the games theorists seem likeliest to meet. Computer boffins at Manhattan's Rockefeller University play a game called Hunt the Wumpus, in which the Ph.D. devouring Wumpus is hunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

What is not likely to change is that the games that succeed will work because they use their memory chips and lighted readouts to create melodrama. The best example now in production is a brilliant quarter-arcade game called Space Invaders. It is a reaction-time contest: shoot down the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Those Beeping, Thinking Toys | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The overwhelming difficulty about full reunion is the power and the office of the papacy itself. The Orthodox hold that religious authority derives from the church as a whole and is expressed through ecumenical councils. In Catholicism, the Pope is the ultimate arbiter. This split seemingly became unbridgeable in 1870...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Tomorrow of God | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The Ecumenical Patriarchate is anxious to pursue unity in part because of its own precarious existence and dwindling flock in Turkey, which has dropped from 80,000 in 1955 to 6,000 today. The situation was poignantly clear when only 250 people (including reporters) attended last week's historic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Tomorrow of God | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Given the tense state of the world, there is much to be gained simply by the pursuit of ecumenism, however long the road may eventually be. Before his trip to Turkey, John Paul told Catholic ecumenists from 59 nations that Christian divisions "impair the credibility of Christ himself and hinder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Toward the Tomorrow of God | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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