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But creating what? Historian Arnold Toynbee finds that "a real beginning of fusion" is under way, raising the prospect of the first genuinely European era since the early 16th century of Erasmus and St. Thomas More, when Latin-speaking scholars could still wan der freely over a continent that had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR OF EUROPE: Here Comes the European Idea | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

That may not be enough to please the new Europe's more ardent advocates. But given the Continent's past -its dreadful wars, its fierce rivalries -the arrival of "the European idea" is unquestionably one of the signal events of the decade.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR OF EUROPE: Here Comes the European Idea | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

The Stelle Group, as they call themselves, will have survived the early troubles in their self-sufficient community near Kankakee, Ill., and the later chaos by a more imaginative method-levitation. During the cataclysms, they will be off floating somewhere in the sky; afterward, they will come back down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret of Stelle | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

A Francis book is a reliable product, full of suspense, with racing backgrounds as sound as Buckpasser's bloodlines. His style has one peculiarity a wide streak of rather naive masochism. The likes of Spillane use sadomasochism calculatedly and in trite conjunction with sex. Francis' men (he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Francis, Go Home | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

In a continent where military coups seem almost as common as peaceable elections, tiny Uruguay has been unique. Often described as the "Switzerland of South America," Uruguay, alone among Latin countries, could boast that not in this century had a democratically elected government been taken over by the military. Not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Success of a Soft Coup | 2/26/1973 | See Source »

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