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Webb's explanation of Americans' increased wakefulness is the "Edison effect," which has expanded their activities by turning night into day and nibbled away at their slumber time. He remarks: "We've ripped away the cocoon of darkness with electric light." Which is a small thought to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Pillow Talk | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

Gulag III should prove less formidable than its predecessors. The bleak panorama of I (the prison system) and II (the labor camps) opens on to more heartening vistas of resistance and rebellion in III. The book is principally an enthralling account of the first postwar escapes and strikes in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Escapes from the Gulag | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

WESTERN CIVILIZATION is burning, and its artists are fiddling away. They must put down their bows and start fighting anew the good fight, for morality, and for truth, lest darkness engulf mankind.

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Muddled Morals | 5/3/1978 | See Source »

Coach Bob Donovan of Harvard sent one of his more random squads into action, an aggressive organization that fought to the last putt around the first rim of darkness, but after Mingolla's minions had aerated all 18 greens with approximately 10,000 one-half-inch gouges to prepare for...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: Dead Solid Tragic | 4/28/1978 | See Source »

Dave Fish's charges actually won just five matches, as they balanced their scoring sheet by settling for two half-wins in doubles matches that were called because of darkness.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Breeze Past Williams, 6-3 | 4/19/1978 | See Source »

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