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...forth in the Bible that mankind is to "be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth." But with millions starving throughout the world, maybe the Pope should consider whether God's directive has been reached...
...full of an ironic humor that makes its profundity palatable and insidiously convincing. It is frightening, describing a world that has run out of bicycles, sweet-plums, coffins, pain-killer, honor, time, and God. After a futile attempt at prayer, Hamm screams, "Bastard! He doesn't exist." It shows mankind, having walked to the edge of the plank, hesitate before the leap that threatens oblivion or promises a new beginning...
...blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were not street corner vandals: intellectually, they were seeking to turn art on itself and drag all of society down with it, so that mankind could start...
Your article "Friends and Enemies" [WORLD, Oct. 8] says that "Mubarak's fondest hope is that other Arab countries will follow Hussein's lead in forgiving Egypt." The Camp David accords were a historic peace agreement for the betterment of mankind. Jordan and the other Arab nations should not "forgive" what Egypt has done. They should accept its achievements...
DIED. Martin Ryle, 66, British astrophysicist who shared the 1974 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of radio astronomy techniques that extended mankind's reach 6 billion miles into the universe and led to the discovery of such intense, distant radio sources as pulsars and quasars; of pneumonia; in Cambridge, England. His major discovery, aperture synthesis, provided a method of focusing many small, separate radio antennas to fill in the gaps in broad-band radio waves, allowing astronomers to record tiny details, equivalent in terms of optical telescopes to reading a postage stamp on the moon...