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...Laboratories of England's Cambridge University, recounting the birth of modern atomic physics. At still another, he is standing in the bleak wastes of Death Valley, discussing the efforts of the Viking landers to find living things on Mars. Alas, concedes Sagan, they have found no sure trace of life?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cosmic Explainer | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...linesman's calls, unleashed grimaces, tossed racquets or bashed balls. "Iceborg" they called him. In an era when tennis was turning from a game of gentlefolk to a showcase for the antics of ill-mannered Nastases, petulant Connorses and adolescent McEnroes, Borg seemed right out of Boy's Life???Goody Twoshoes with a tennis racquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tennis Machine | 6/30/1980 | See Source »

...close to total abstraction, depending on such slender clues as a glass or a pipestem to pull them back to reality. As he moved forward, he found in collage a way of linking cubism back to the world. Collage, which simply means gluing, brought fragments of modern life???newspaper headlines, printed labels?directly into the painting. Cut them out, put them in. The tonal values of some of his finest collages have been ruined by age. The newsprint, once gray on white, is now cigar-brown. But in better preserved ones, like Violin and Sheet Music, 1912, the original effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Show of Shows | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...then continue to offer hostages to imams and to fortune?" Enrico Jacchia, a noted Italian political scientist, is somewhat more philosophical: "We assumed that the Western principle of diplomatic immunity could be applied everywhere in the Third World. In other words we wanted to export our way of life???and it didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy's Dark Hours | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...John Winthrop, first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, written aboard the Arabella as the ship approached America in 1630: "We must love one another with a pure heart We must bear one another's burden." Said John Paul: "These simple words explain so much of the meaning of life??? our life as brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope In America: It Was Woo-hoo-woo | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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