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Modern nations as well as primitive tribes may try to repeat their primordial events and look for escape into sacred time. It is a dangerous passage. Hitler's 1,000-year Reich, the tribe of fur-clad Übermenschen with Aryan fire in their eyes, lasted for twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Time and the Falklands | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

LIFE ON EARTH. PBS, beginning Jan. 12 a 8 p.m. (E.S.T.). In the beginning was the word, but David Attenborough and the BBC seem not to have been far behind recording the story of evolution from the primordial ooze to the uncertain present The result, a 13-hour television series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Two PBS Gifts for the New Year | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

The bulk of the state's case will be presented this week. Its lawyers are arguing that evolution is fully as religious (or nonreligious) as creation science, and that evolution cannot meet the strict definition of science any better than creation science can. "You shouldn't reject creationism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Darwin vs. the Bible | 12/21/1981 | See Source »

The space agency has already canceled its half of a collaborative effort with the Western Europeans called the Inter national Solar Polar Mission (ISPM). Two unmanned spacecraft were to be sent in great, looping orbits over the unexplored poles of the sun. Last week J.P.L. officials gloomily conceded that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clouds over the Cosmos | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Large claims have often been made for homely old salacious gossip-the sort of assertions, one might think, that sweating pornographers used to make in court about the "redeeming social value" of their work. All storytelling, hence most of literature from Homer onward, rises from gossip's fertile lowlands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Morals of Gossip | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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