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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Solzhenitsyn: An Artist Becomes an | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

Though the doctors realized that it was feasible to remove the extra pelvis and legs, they feared that the excision could imperil the child's urological functions or damage his circulation if major arteries were involved. They also worried that removal of so large a growth might leave insufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Incomplete Twin | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

Randall and Klugman thus spend the first day of work on every episode repairing the writing. When one script, in the latest TV mode, made a cynical and token pass at the nation's racial troubles, the stars gagged and turned the circumstance into parody: the black athlete became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV & Radio: The Odd Squad | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

For his part, McGovern thinks that even "a billion dollars a year for hunger will be less than a third of what is needed," and he promises to press for an increase. Where Nixon will get the $270 million to start the program in 1970 is still unknown. One obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunger: Where It's At | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

Disengagement. No one reminded Romney that Malaya was an East-West battleground before most Americans knew where Viet Nam was, that Laos nearly slipped under Communist control six years ago, that the U.S. presence in Asia encouraged Indonesia's excision of Communist influence in 1965.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: In Transition | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

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