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Words of his come to my mind-"With the discovery of the atom, everything changed, except for man's thinking. Because of this we drift toward unparalled catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1979 | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...offer $1.8 billion in economic aid over the past decade as part of its courtship aimed at loosening Turkey's ties with NATO. However, despite friendly recent gestures of his own toward Moscow, Ecevit is considered a confirmed Westerner who has no intention of allowing Turkey to drift into neutralism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Sick Man Suffers a Relapse | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...University police rescue four freshmen from a melting snow-drift outside Weld Hall. "Damnedest thing I ever saw," reports Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, who then informs the freshmen that they can have until May to take their make-up midterms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Problems Here | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...metaphysical dimension, Shaw added a third-act "Don Juan in Hell" sequence, a kind of afterworld dream in which the playwright argues that the Life Force has developed consciousness, and is using man in order to discern purpose and destiny in brute existence: "To be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer." Retorts the Devil: "On the rocks, most likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Girl Gets Boy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Whether Travolta is enough to pull in huge audiences this time around is an open question: next to this film, Grease starts to look like Citizen Kane. He appears fairly often in his Saturday Night Fever bikini briefs, but Moment by Moment's sexual drift is more than a little ambiguous. When Tomlin touches his body, she does so in the clinical manner of a doctor probing for telltale lumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Winter Camp | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

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