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...many blank pages, or pages with the same letter, or random words about random words, Philip Glass on paper, ink as an automatic act, meta-words, that refer back to their physical Existence as the orgasmic climactic union of ink and processed tree stump...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Brain-Addled Air Junkies | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

Following a trend in many churches toward inclusive language in Scripture and worship, the new NAB avoids male terms for generalized human references (for example, "one" replacing "man"). The editors decided, however, not to alter male references to God and Jesus and to retain "kingdom of God" because the phrase "reign of God" seems to refer to precipitation when read aloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Once More, the Sound of Music | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

...refer firstly to their statement, "restricting some of [Kent-Brown's] rights is an appropriate method of activism." I am continually amazed at the number of people who list as justification for their methods of protest the exact principle against which they are supposedly protesting. Perhaps the irony of their statement could be illustratred if the dissenters were reminded that the very target of their protest, the government of South Africa, is "restricting some" of the rights of its Black citizens, and that since 1917 the "activists" who took control of the Russian government have been "restricting some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proper Protest | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

Finally, I refer to the statement, "Kent-Brown has an advantage in protecting his rights, the Harvard University police force. Activists have only their overwhelming desire to make the voices of their protest heard." The only rights that the H.U.P.D. are protecting are Kent-Brown's physical right to the free movement that the dissenters are so willing to "blockade," and his right not to be harmed by the "militant action" that they condone. If they feel that this is an "advantage," and eliminating that advantage means using a police force to "make the voices of protest heard," then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Proper Protest | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...Rabin, both former Prime Ministers, were backing Shamir's position that the less said about Pollard, the better it would be for Israel. That cozy arrangement, made possible by the 30-month-old coalition between Likud and Labor, made some Israelis uncomfortable, and a few wags began to refer to the trio of Prime Ministers as the "Gang of Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Uproar over a Spy | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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