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The Berawan longhouse is a single vast wooden building extending along a river bank and raised up on stilts. It is a jungle metropolis containing between 200 and 400 souls and humming with activity. It is also a military complex, for the days of headhunting are not so far distant...

Author: By Peter Metcalf, | Title: Tribal Politics in Borneo and Cambridge | 4/20/1976 | See Source »

By the turn of the century, sociologists and political philosophers, students of urbanization and the power of the press were brooding about the implications of mediated experience. The anonymous metropolis and the explosion of information threatened to swamp primary social contacts. Between man and his environment, Walter Lippmann noted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: From Sermons to Sonys: HOW WE KEEP IN TOUCH | 2/16/1976 | See Source »

One of my happiest New Year's Eves was spent in Birmingham at a party at a friend's house whose father is the president of UAB. The university has given him this mansion to live in which is nothing short of incredible. The kitchen alone could service a community...

Author: By Anne Cherner, | Title: New Year's | 1/13/1976 | See Source »

Shuster, who had poor eyesight, could only get menial jobs; Siegel became a clerk-typist. Superman continued to maintain law and order in Metropolis and over the years made a fortune for others. Superman books, TV and radio shows have earned tens of millions of dollars. The first comic book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Man and Superman | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

That scenario might be a cautionary account of the fall of New York after default. In fact, it is the history of a pre-Columbian city called Teotihuacan (the Aztecs' word for "the place the gods call home"), once a metropolis of as many as 200,000 inhabitants 33...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Gods | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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