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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Skylab showered debris across this country, I'm glad that God, and not NASA, put the moon into orbit around the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Clarke was profound, as usual. As public support of science wanes-for space exploration in particular-thank God for doers and dreamers like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...spotty results. The fact is, the young and not so young lovers determined to marry are going to do so, come hell or high priest. Life's toughest act is to live permanently with another; the surprise is that so many marriages hold firm. This I do know: God will be more merciful to the divorced than Catholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1979 | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...situation has been reached where only God can save the country." So saying, Y.B. Chavan, leader of the opposition Congress Party, offered a routine parliamentary motion of no confidence in the government of India's Prime Minister Morarji Desai early this month. At the time no one took the motion very seriously. But within a few days, Desai's support in the ruling Janata Party, the five-group coalition that routed Indira Gandhi in national elections 28 months ago, had all but evaporated. Last week Desai, 83, was forced to resign, and Indian President N. Sanjiva Reddy asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Desai's Defeat | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

...18th century, however, the old classicism was replaced by a new aesthetic. The purpose of art, philosophers and poets of the day argued, was not to impose an artificial order on nature, but to reveal, as John Dryden put it, "God's first idea." Mocking such conceits as clipping bushes into the shapes of beasts, Alexander Pope urged that the three arts of poetry, painting and gardening be united. The first to execute Pope's grand vision successfully was Architect, Painter and Landscape Artist William Kent, who began work on Claremont around 1725. Nature abhors a straight line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Nation of Gardeners | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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