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Children devotees are kept in the home until the age of five. At that time, they are placed in special schools. The schools shelter the children from the sinful world yet teach them the ways of life outside of the movement. The schools' curricula omit science because members of the movement believe it is a domination of the material world. "Science creates the illusion that man is God, man is ruler. However, man will never create life and so will never be the true ruler," Garuda says...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: 'Hare Hare' | 3/9/1978 | See Source »

Byrd and Baker combined to draft amendments to the treaties containing exactly the language of the "clarification" -then deftly persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to omit it so that a host of Senators could co-sponsor the amendments and thus claim credit for protecting U.S. interests in the Panama Canal Zone. By week's end, 78 Senators had signed on as cosponsors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Opening the Great Canal Debate | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...repeat that previous campaign-the earlier book was intended to drum up business, and did-would thus be a sin. Blood, Brains and Beer also adheres to other cardinal principles of admaking: the straight story, smoothly told, sells stuff best; it is wrong to lie, but feel free to omit; humor should not be overdone (it is a bit too scarce in the last three-fourths of the book); testimonials work wonders (Ogilvy quotes verbatim an honorary degree citation awarded him by Adelphi University). The adman is now retired to a 37-bedroom medieval French chateau. There he continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advertisements For Himself | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

...that the Times of London came to blame Dickens and his imitators for "the deluge of trash" that descended on booksellers each Christmas. Dickens' yuletide tales were hungrily awaited by hundreds of thousands; even when pressed by the demands of his novels, the author did not want to omit his annual story and thus "leave any gap at Christmas firesides which I ought to fill." Dickens patented the plum-pudding vision of Christmas that reality so often mocks, sending millions into holiday funks. "It is good to be children sometimes," he wrote in A Christmas Carol "and never better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spirit of Christmas Present | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...market in more ways than one, and we disapprove of skinny people having their jokes at our expense. Kindly omit innuendoes that add to the already overwhelming prejudice against overweight people. Ardelle Tuma and other fashion spokespersons are finally recognizing our reasonable demand for attractive and tasteful clothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 20, 1977 | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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