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...Devil's Role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Ping Heard Round the World | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...President's overtures seemed to be having no effect. The elimination of passport restrictions, for example, remained meaningless, since the Chinese refused to grant visas except to a few old friends like Author-Journalist Edgar Snow. "China continues in its determination to cast us in the devil's role," complained Nixon. "Our modest efforts to prove otherwise have not reduced Peking's doctrinaire enmity toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Ping Heard Round the World | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...growing life in artificial wombs, for instance, or even rearranging enough molecules to create life itself, man will invoke comparison to the legendary Faust. He attained the power to create life?the tiny test-tube man, or homunculus?but only after he had bartered away his soul to the devil. If the new knowledge is used recklessly, Faustian man of the future may wonder if he, too, has not made a pact with dark forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL SECTION: MAN INTO SUPERMAN | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

...More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned on you-where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast-man's laws, not God's-and if you cut them down-and you're just the man to do it-d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then...

Author: By Allan Cornett, | Title: Concerning the Events Last Friday | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

...Freedoms of Speech, Press and Assembly along with the legal guarantees to them are the only defenses we have. Even the devil or administrators that promote policies of war must be allowed to speak for everyone's freedom is lessened when one person is denied these essential rights...

Author: By Allan Cornett, | Title: Concerning the Events Last Friday | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

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