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Suddenly the leader stops, stoops and snatches a small brownish fossilized bone fragment out of the sand. "Nimeipata, " he says in Swahili to the man beside him. "I've got it." Then, "Meave!" he calls to the wom an, who runs to join him. Together they examine the bone for a moment, replace it on the exact spot where it was found, mark it with a stake, and resume their search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

...covered proscenium arch set off by blue backlighting; but when combined with the main acting area, a sand-covered expanse in front of Jero's home/church, the intended effect is achieved. No flashy techniques distinguish the lighting scheme. Another minor criticism can be directed at the music--the same fragment of a song is heard between each and every scene as well as before the show, and by the third or fourth time this recurring theme begins to dull...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: A Sharp-Tongued Savior | 10/21/1977 | See Source »

...which you promenade, admiring discreetly price-tag-less clothes, jewelry and paintings. On one side is the oldest non-profit craft cooperative in the USA, on the other the oldest guild of artists. All these places proclaim their uniqueness with the fervor of the faithful in possession of a fragment of the True Cross. And if this were Paris the artists would litter the sidewalks chronicling the scene...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...house in Nauvoo, Ill. Three years later, in 1844, he was murdered by a mob. The house was torn down in 1882 and the manuscript scattered, but a few sections were recovered and placed in the church's Salt Lake City archives. Among them is one 20-page fragment of which twelve pages were written by a single, but unknown, hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Mormon Mystery | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...this fragment of an autobiography, written in the early 1940s but withheld from publication until now, Wright tells of his tumultuous, troubled early manhood. In his 20s he left the South for Chicago, where he found relief from the physical brutality of Mississippi. But he was introduced to subtler forms of intimidation. If the whites no longer kicked him, they inevitably stepped on the spot that Wright was mopping in the hospital laboratory and tracked the dirty water around. "If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites," he recalls, "it was then. Not once during my entire stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape to Loneliness | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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