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...change of mood from the first to the second Mabuse is complete. Each character of the second is typed, limited, almost judged in a hard, bitter manner. In the place of the ambivalent de Witt we have a pig, Inspector Lohmann, whose chief distinction is the dread in which petty criminals hold him. A practical detective, Lohmann works not by mental penetration and battles of the will, but by reconstructing acts men have already committed. He uses physical clues to track down the master criminal where de Witt tried to discover his identity and scize Mabuse himself...
...last few years there had been a huge increase in the number of university students, but no similar increase in opportunities. Like American students facing the draft those French students in sociology, philosophy, and literature, who were the great majority of revolutionaries, looked upon their futures with dread and without the hope that ending a war would bring a solution...
This enzyme deficiency is caused by an inborn genetic defect that has been traced back 500 years to Ashkenazic Jews who lived in Lithuania and Poland. Because Jews usually marry within their own faith, the genetic defect-and the dread disease-are still largely confined to Jews. In the U.S., for example, Tay-Sachs occurs once in every 5,000 Jewish births, but only once in every 400,000 non-Jewish babies...
...have left the countryside carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant growth often concealed guerrilla fighters of the dread Any a Nya (Scorpion) independence movement, but now there are signs that one of the most long-lived conflicts in Africa has begun to ebb. Last week, TIME Correspondent William Smith visited the Sudan and filed a report on a hopeful lull in the bitter, 14-year-old struggle that...
There is no idleness in Don Sergio's diocese either-nor any dread of sudden expulsion. It is rather, says Leroy Hoinacki, a former Illich colleague now at U.C.L.A., "a symbol and a source of inspiration. It is a joyful place, with no fear, no suspicion. Any young priest, sister or layman who has hopes of being a Christian, especially within the structure, looks to Cuernavaca and Don Sergio. They are living the Gospel as it should be lived." German Catholic Theologian Johannes Metz agrees. Don Sergio's benign but active leadership, says Metz-who is dedicating...