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...blond Aryan to bring an intellectual Jewish girl to her first orgasm. It was published in 1959 as The Time of Her Time. A tale by Roald Dahl of a wily Arab who lures eligible young men to his home to make love to his daughter, a leper, appeared in Playboy three years ago. For the avant-garde in politics, the magazine offered a profile of Richard Nixon. For the latest in poetry, the verse that Ho Chi Minh cranked out in a Chinese prison in the 1940s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Rear-Garde | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...Lifton shows in this compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors. They are known as hibakusha (pronounced hi-bak-sha), which literally means "explosion-affected persons." To the Japanese the word incorporates the chill of such terms as zombie and leper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychological Ground Zero | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...unpublicized departure. More than 6,500 letters had arrived bidding him Godspeed, and now TV crews, newsmen and 750 well-wishers thronged Montreal's International Airport to say farewell to Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger, 63, as he left his archdiocese for self-imposed missionary work in an African leper colony. "When I first made my decision, I felt all alone, but in a month it has become apparent that I have obeyed God's will," said the cardinal. "I leave with a resolution never to come back. I tell you to love God; love one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1967 | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

...directed first of all to the poor in spirit." So saying, Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger, 63, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal, last week announced that he will leave his see next month to become "a simple missionary" in a still unspecified leper colony in Africa. Although he retains the personal title of cardinal, Léger will work as a priest under the direction of an African bishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Cardinal for a Leper Colony | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...world misunderstanding of the war and give Ho Chi Minh a mistaken idea of world support. The tribunal, said McLendon, was "a kangaroo court conducted by Communists for Communists." A measure of the witnesses' integrity was that three of them accused the U.S. of purposely bombing a leper colony 37 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweden: Trial's End | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

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