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...liken Solzhenitsyn's voice to that of an Old Testament prophet. I liken it to that of a dangerous extremist and warmonger. His contention that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina is blood chilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 4, 1975 | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...feminists who look to Lessing as a prophet of the movement may be disappointed with Memoirs. Emily's struggle is to become a woman, yes, but the message of the book has nothing to do with a woman's struggle to become independent. In fact, midway through the book the narrator discusses her own dissatisfaction with Emily's submission to Gerald her lover...

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: Children of the Holocaust | 7/15/1975 | See Source »

Solzhenitsyn speaks with the voice of an Old Testament prophet. While the prophets were often correct (sometimes because they helped make their prophecies come true), Solzhenitsyn's apocalyptic vision cannot be a guide to practical policy. Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union have good reason to pursue détente: the hope of reducing, if only a little and very gradually, the danger of a war that could end civilization. True, détente is risky. But the U.S. is not so weak that it need be afraid of dealing with a powerful and wily adversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: A Few Unsweet Remarks | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...Square facing the Riyadh Mosque. At the appointed hour, the young prince was led, blindfolded, to the square. As he knelt with his hands tied behind his back, one of the sharia judges read him the court's verdict. Immediately thereafter, in keeping with the words of the Prophet Mohammed, "a soul for a soul," the prince was executed in the prescribed manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAUDI ARABIA: Death for the Assassin | 6/30/1975 | See Source »

...last year Gill realized that a miracle was needed to make the masses recognize that he was a true prophet. For months he led the church to expect that this proof would be nothing less than the resurrection of someone from the dead. Last July 3 he announced in the church newspaper that the next issue would describe an event that would "publicly vindicate" him as a prophet. On the very day the paper was to appear, Gill, 49, suddenly died of pancreatitis after two days in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Waiting for Gill | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

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