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...serious seeker of ethics, there is no better place at Harvard than the Divinity School. A separate "Ethics" section in the catalogue list a total of 18 courses, with about two-thirds focusing on "applied ethics," rather than ethical theory...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Pondering the Meaning of It All | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...seemed at first that the conversion was just another idiosyncrasy, some kind of gimmick. It was nothing of the kind. Clay had actually changed his religion before the Listen fight. Harold Conrad, for mer sportswriter, sometime promoter, and, in the years when Ali was banished from the ring, tireless seeker after the means of his return, was privy to a prefight crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Is Gone | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...English translation, Final Entries 1945: The Diaries of Joseph Goebbels, will be published this spring in New York City by Putnam and in London by Martin Seeker & Warburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Inside the G | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...Global Soul Seeker Bill Bright, 56, director of the successful Campus Crusade for Christ, plans to raise $100 million next year?and a cool $1 billion by 1982?for another project. Its aim is to saturate the earth with Gospel preachers and placards. Bright, who is based in Arrowhead Springs, Calif., describes the effort as "the most extensive Christian social and evangelization mission in recorded history." A number of the richest businessmen in America are backing his campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...magazine, like those in the New Yorker, are aimed at "the seeker after excellence," and appeal to the reader's worst instincts--snobbery, exclusivity, and delight in sheer expense. It is doubtful that any but the pretentious rich would jump for joy the way a male model does in one ad--over nine pairs of new shoes in a full page spread. And there are the ubiquitous pictures of a Calvin Klein damsel in satiny "at-home" clothes or a Matisse-like line drawing publicizing Yves St. Laurent's stylish scraps...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Trash | 9/27/1977 | See Source »

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