Word: hammerism
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...would be amazed at the kind of programs that some other schools can put together. Major universities in the Midwest host the likes of M.C. Hammer, Guns N' Roses, Bob Dylan and U2 on their campuses. They turn over their stadiums and concert spaces to agents and collect a percentage of the profits. It doesn't cost them anything except the maintenance of the facility--and students even profit by being able to work major shows...
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...subject so monumental calls for some unusual approaches. In one such departure, we commissioned science-fiction master Arthur C. Clarke, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, to write a new story, set in the third millennium. His tale, The Hammer of God, about an asteroid that imperils the earth, is only the second piece of fiction ever to be published in TIME. (The first was a story by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in 1969.) The 74-year-old British futurist, who has written more than 50 books, is often as prescient as he is prolific. Clarke has long warned about humankind...
...wonder that, even now, most of humankind could still not believe that this modest asteroid was the instrument of doom. Or, as the Chrislamic Fundamentalists were calling it, "the Hammer...
...career as an urban hustler in Boston, his conversion to the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad and his assassination at 39. The less savory aspects of his life are glossed over in favor of his iconographic significance as the avenging angel of black America. "My truth is a hammer," sings the jailed Malcolm in the extraordinary aria that ends the first act. "It will beat you down when you least expect . . . You want the truth, but you don't want to know...