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Atorgenics is a twentieth-century science, born and weaned in America's business world. The atorgenicist has a more familiar name. He is a public relations man, prophet and historian of the Social Ethic...
Mohammed the Prophet never wanted to see Damascus, because "one Paradise is enough," but within three years of his death in 632, his followers surged out of the desert and seized Damascus. Under the Ommiad Caliphs, Syria, so long a pawn, became the heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab. Enlightened and energetic, Syria's new rulers drained the country's marshes, irrigated her steppe, gave Damascus a water system-still functioning-and converted the Byzantine Church of St. John the Baptist into one of Islam's great shrines, the Ommiad Mosque...
...youthful New York composer with a gift for vocal writing, Marvin Levy, 25, had his latest opera premiered at the Santa Fe Opera's amphitheater (TIME, July 15). Composer Levy's work, a one-acter entitled The Tower, tells how King Solomon imprisons his daughter after a prophet predicts she will marry the poorest man in the kingdom. Joash, dead-broke, is thrown into the same prison, promptly marries the princess, and in the end is accepted by his father-in-law and decked in royal robes. The score, as frothy as the libretto, played heavily...
Thus runs the evangelical message of Jacques André Istel, 28, a black-browed ex-Wall Streeter and dedicated prophet of parachuting in the U.S. His gospel: jumping, without emergency, out of an airplane can be a safe, exhilarating sport, not a devil-daring performance for iron-nerved musclemen. Europe has been convinced since World War II, and there thousands of men and women of all ages happily spend their weekends halfway between plane and earth. It is time for the sport to flourish in the U.S., says Istel. "There's no more to parachute jumping, done right, than...
Irving (The Fabulous Originals) Wallace uses these lines from Alice in Wonderland as foreword to his studies of nine Americans of the March hare species. Wallace's fondness for just-this-side-of-the-nuthouse characters began in adolescence, when Wilbur Glenn Voliva, onetime high prophet of Zion City, Ill., personally assured him that the earth was shaped like a saucer and the sky ''a solid dome." Wallace concedes that Voliva's own dome was probably far from solid, but he argues that Voliva stood for ''the human freedom to be different...