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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME stories have created so much stir and comment as has our April 8 cover, which posed and probed the epistemological question that has become pervasive in the new theology: Is God dead? From all over the U.S. and abroad, thousands of readers wrote us, many-especially churchmen-praising the story, some criticizing us for dealing with the question as a cover subject, and a few inattentive ones berating us for announcing the end of God. A vast majority of those who themselves answered the question did so, in widely varying ways, with a resounding "No!" Some thought that...
...reply to the kidnapers, the government last week announced that only ten of the 28 had in fact been picked up; of those, nine had been released and one escaped. This was news to their bewildered relatives, who tearfully besieged government offices for any scraps of information. Refusing further comment, Peralta reimposed the year-old state of siege, which had been lifted in March...
...Reverend Moyers, White House press secretary, gyrating halfway down on his knees, doing the watusi. The Reverend Moyers is another of those twinkle toes that inhabit the White House." At that, Baptist Bill Moyers, 31, inhibited himself into the depths of the West Wing and refused any comment on his performance at the Smithsonian Institution bene fit ball. White House Adviser Bob Kintner just burbled: "No matter what dance Bill does, it always comes out looking like a square dance anyhow...
...report stirred much double-edged comment, such as the Daily Mail's observation, entitled "An End to Dreaming," that the report was "nicely balanced between recommending radical changes and preserving traditional values. The sooner its proposals are put into force the better." A critique more likely to keep Oxford in the front ranks of such world pacesetters as Harvard and Berkeley could probably come only from a commission outside Oxford's own establishment. Philosopher Franks' report did not seem frank enough...
...Luftwaffe bomb reduced them to confetti. Nabokov explains all this in a foreword to this revised translation-also his own -and enters his usual caveat against reading anything into the book that isn't there: "Despair, in kinship with the rest of my books, has no social comment to make, no message to bring in its teeth...