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And then there was the friend who had always wanted to rape someone and talked about it so incessantly that X decided, as a birthday present, to let him purge his fantasy. So X scoured around town until he found a girl who happily had always wanted to be raped...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Goodbye to All That, and Good Riddance | 9/1/1973 | See Source »

Hughes' second installment is The Wooden Shepherdess. It carries Augustine and the story up through 1934, and ends with another Nazi set piece-Hitler's blood purge of scores of rivals and former associates in that year to consolidate his power. Hughes' creative tide, however, shows signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Turning Tide | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

MUCH more serious, though, is that Susan Sontag still appears to be one of those people more interested in Making Movies than in making a particular movie. She has no religious anguish to purge, no personal vision to express, no political axe to grind. This makes for wonderful objectivity, but...

Author: By H. MICHAEL Levenson, | Title: The Avant-Garde and The Avant-Guardian | 7/27/1973 | See Source »

Were Adam and Eve real people whose taste of forbidden fruit tainted man forever with original sin? Did Jonah spend three days in the belly of a "great fish"? Did the Red Sea actually part for Moses and the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt? Last week in New Orleans, the 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of New Orleans | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

5) LEONID I. BREZHNEV, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union during Lenin's era was a revolutionary beacon for the rest of the world, but all that promise was lost someplace between the Purge Trials and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and nudged Russia...

Author: By Dan Swanson, | Title: Twenty World Enemies | 7/6/1973 | See Source »

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