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I believe sex between married partners can be the highest expression of love. Such expression can honestly exist only when long range emotional commitments unite a couple. Where such profound, permanent relationships are not found, sex loses all but the dimension of physical gratification. Any person can and should develop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC EROTICISM | 10/23/1975 | See Source »

Until 1935 baseball remained an afternoon pastime; then MacPhail flooded Cincinnati's Crosley Field with banks of lights and gave a new dimension to the game. With his indomitable optimism he bailed clubs out of hock and transformed cellar teams into pennant winners: the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1975 | 10/13/1975 | See Source »

Church's announcement--admittedly not as outrageous as the disclosures by the Rockefeller Commission this summer--was the first identification of the public figures and institutions affected by the CIA's domestic intelligence gathering operations. This latest news only highlights another dimension of CIA investigations, the sad fact that up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The CIA and Harvard | 10/1/1975 | See Source »

...makers of Wizard, the Bally Company, have carried pinball over the threshold of a new age. In pinball's infancy, the game's mechanisms were exceedingly simple, even one dimensional. For most machines the surface was the only reality. A given bumper, a given roll-over had a certain, fixed value, and one's score was no more or less than the sum of those values. It was not long, however, before a second dimension was introduced, utterly transforming a phenomenon that had been purely linear: certain targets or combinations of targets were designed to change the schedule of reward...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: An Elegant Abstraction | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

The twin figures of Love and Evil, gyrating in painted ecstacy on Wizard's backboard, could not preside over a scene of more nearly apocalyptic import. It will never again be possible to construct a pinball machine with the relatively simple patterns we are familiar with--one bumper, regardless of...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: An Elegant Abstraction | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

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