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...other moments he seems decid ed to be a true sorcerer or bust. "Power takes care of you," he says, "and you don't know how. Now I'm at the edge, and I have to change my whole format. Writing to get my Ph.D. was my ac complishment, my sorcery, and now I am at the apex of a cycle that includes the notoriety. But this is the last thing I will ever write about Don Juan. Now I am going to be a sorcerer for sure. Only my death could stop that." It is a ro mantic role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don Juan and the Sorcerer's Apprentice | 3/5/1973 | See Source »

...Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when teachers decid ed that a student was not benefiting, they simply let him join conventional classes. Of the first 150 students, 60 failed to complete the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professors: Intellectual Immersion at Berkeley | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

First countermeasure tried by the fishes' human allies was electrical barriers across stream mouths to keep mature lampreys from swimming upstream to spawn. But many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Victory on the Lakes | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

...semi-final round of the doubles and the class trials will be completed on Jarvis Field this afternoon. The semi-final round of the doubles will be decid- ed by the best three matches out of five, and the interclass trials by two out of three. The final round of the doubles together with the first matches of the interclass tournament will be played on Monday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP WENT TO STELLWAGEN | 10/29/1915 | See Source »

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