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...well suited to the occasion. To show off the 125-voice chorus (65 from the church's own choir, the rest from other Harlem groups), there were several selections from Handel's Messiah, two of them featuring Tenor Seth McCoy. To give the church's five-manual, 4,000-pipe organ a workout, Organist Leonard Raver and the orchestra galloped through the finale of Saint-Saëns' Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harlem Bash | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

...come to pass that the Bible will be recognized as a dubious guide to the exercise of power. The Bible is, of course, President Carter's basic manual. Were he more inclined to the thunder of the Old Testament, the U.S. might have a better global position. But Carter runs to the New Testament, wherein the meek inherit the world, turn the other cheek, love enemies, are first by being last, and find strength made perfect in weakness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Too Good a Samaritan | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...divers performed a number of experiments during the dive, including tests of breathing, manual dexterity and mental functioning. The only problems the divers reported were slight difficulties breathing and a mild case of the bends while surfacing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diving Record | 4/19/1980 | See Source »

...address this. Running is good for you, so run, he simply says; he balances his occasionally disarming enthusiasm with precautions. Don't be fooled by the title--this really is not a book. It is part sales catalogue, part magazine, part travel guide, part medical journal, and part training manual...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: A Certain Fixxation | 4/16/1980 | See Source »

...likely to be more aggressive than heterosexual sex simply because two men are involved. Sex researchers generally endorse Freud's finding that "the sexuality of most men shows an admixture of aggression, of a desire to subdue." Indeed the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders characterizes sadism and masochism as almost exclusively male perversions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: The Gay World's Leather Fringe | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

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