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...destroyed by the world's perversions during a quest for the ideal love-object. Although it is replete with sex orgies and James Bondian power fantasies, the satire is based on the story of Abraham and Isaac. In Charles' existential updating, however, there is no sacrificial ram to substitute for Isaac and no hand of God to stop Abraham's knife. The New Satyricon often reads like a pegged-leg parody of both William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and John Barth's Giles Goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Naked Brunch | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

About 50 student demonstrators- using a battering ram to force open a door- broke into the office of the President of M.I.T. shortly after noon yesterday and occupied the Institute's three-room executive suite...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fishman, | Title: SDS Seizes M.I.T. Offices With Ram | 1/16/1970 | See Source »

...battering ram had been specially constructed and fitted with two cross-bars to serve as handles. The persons who carried it wore ski masks over their faces and long white lab coats which concealed their clothing...

Author: By Mitchell S. Fishman, | Title: SDS Seizes M.I.T. Offices With Ram | 1/16/1970 | See Source »

...SAUL, Michigan State, 6 ft. 2 in., 245 lbs., and CHUCK HUTCHISON, Ohio State, 6 ft. 4 in., 242 lbs. Crack guards are always a scarce commodity on the college market; most of them are too light to make it in the pros. Not Saul. "A big, tough battering ram who will block and rise to block again," says a scouting report. Hutchison, one in Woody Hayes' long line of tough, power-blocking tackles, will probably be converted to guard because "he has great speed for a big man and the savvy to pull and protect on wide plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time's All-America: The Pick of the Pros | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

According to police, four Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) men knocked on the door, announced who they were and set to work at once with the battering ram. The door burst open on the third swing. In the police version, the SWAT team stumbled into a hail of automatic-weapons fire; the Panthers insist that the police opened fire first. It was nearly an hour before newsmen arrived, and when they did, police kept them more than two blocks away. "The fury of the gun battle was right out of Viet Nam," reports TIME Correspondent Martin Sullivan. "Hundreds of rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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