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...Mouw of California's Fuller Theological Seminary, is no longer fashionable. "We are experiencing a reaction against modernity," says Mouw. "We are getting magic and the occult and the New Age. There's a return to a premodern world view." Mouw, an Evangelical, asserts that the churches were seriously mistaken in seeking to duck the age-old questions: "Who am I as a human being before God? How can I face my own death? How can I be forgiven for my very real sins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Those Mainline Blues | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...kind of disappointed because this is probably the worst thing that could happen to the club at this point."--Harvard Rugby club President Bruce S. Miller '90 after the club's cookout on May 7 was mistaken by Lynn, Mass. police for a satanic ritual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

...order for this drama of lust and confused identities to work as comedy--in order for each mistaken identity and preposterous coincidence to work, and in order for Wilde's infamous epigrams to strike the proper chord--actors' timing and enunciation must be absolutely flawless. This is where the mannered performances come in. Instead of being annoying, the pseudo-Brit accents tighten the dialogue and actually make each word shimmer...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: In Wild Earnest | 4/14/1989 | See Source »

When perestroika began, I asked myself if perhaps I hadn't been mistaken about the pyramid. But not long ago, I had the sad occasion to spend some time in Moscow. On the evening of Dec. 30, my friend Yuli Daniel died. If it had not been for his death, they would not have let me into Moscow. Moscow had been denying my wife Maria a visa for a year and a half. The Soviet consulate in Paris had informed us by telephone on the morning of Dec. 30 of the latest denial. Then, after two days of negotiations, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Would I Move Back? | 4/10/1989 | See Source »

According to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Cambridge Police Lt. Donald Carney, the students were mistaken for a white suspect in a simultaneous nearby convenience store theft. It is unclear whether the searching officers were aware of the description of the actual suspect, who was arrested later that night by Harvard Police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time to End Tensions | 3/21/1989 | See Source »

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