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...pure energy. After a concert, the band is drained and the audience is drained. Rock is as important and effective an outlet for energy as is sports. To paraphrase Pete Townshend, rock is the only thing that can verbalize the frustrations of youth and at the same time give you the vehicle to dance the trouble away...
...supposedly is in hiding, but will return some day to purify the religion and institute God's reign of justice on earth. This belief gives Shi'ism a strong messianic cast, to which Khomeini appeals when he promises to expel Western influence and to turn Iran into a pure Islamic society. The Ayatullah has never claimed the title of Imam for himself, but he has done nothing to discourage its use by his followers, a fact that annoys some of his peers among the Iranian clergy. Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's most potent rival for popular reverence, has acidly...
...unadulterated by the venality of the outside world. Conservatives hailed the village commune, or mir, as a cohesive force binding the empire, while the radicals perceived the mir as a ready-made basis for socialism. In his later years, Tolstoy saw the peasant as a religious figure possessing a pure and particularly Russian spirituality-a view now shared by Solzhenitsyn...
...miles) east of Cleveland, where an 81-ton digging machine is carving a huge cavity in a salt mine 600 meters (2,000 ft.) below the ground. When excavation is completed, the cavern will be lined with synthetic rubber and filled with 10,000 tons of exceptionally pure, filtered water. Then, about two years from now, physicists will begin looking in the pool for flashes of light that could signal the decay of protons, confirm a unifying theory of nature, and end the cherished notion that matter is permanent...
...spread false evidence. If not, concludes Lindsey, then "the affair of the snowman and the spy who called himself Falcon was an episode that demonstrated amazing ineptitude on the part of the Central Intelligence Agency." Even the most casual readers of newspaper headlines will recognize the allegation as pure nonfiction. - Donald Morrison