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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Assorted tools, wire, rocks and dirt are not the stuff that spooks seek in spy novels. But such materials turned up last month when Soviet inspectors searched personal items being shipped home by three Americans working for the Energy Department at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site. Soviet authorities charged that the items were sensitive and that shipment of them was banned under the agreement permitting each superpower to monitor underground tests on the other's territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Testing: Digging Up Dirt On the U.S. | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...wallets. Assertions tend to be sold as established facts. Masson writes, for example, that before psychotherapy begins, a "moral judgment" must be made that potential patients "are not living well, or as well as other people, and are therefore in need of 'help.' We often claim that the people seeking psychotherapy make this moral judgment on their own, but this is almost never true." Almost never true, that mentally or emotionally distressed people seek help voluntarily? For his thesis to be persuasive, Masson needs to establish the notion of a vast, coercive system for bringing people into line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shrink Has No Clothes AGAINST THERAPY | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...Wieland and Chereau proved, a radical Ring will ultimately be accepted if it is presented with dramatic force and intellectual coherence. Each new Ring director has the obligation to seek the spirit, not necessarily the letter, of Wagner's four-opera cycle, and Kupfer, director of East Berlin's Komische Oper, is no exception. He presents a cinematic rethinking of the myth that projects the action far into a grim, post-nuclear-war future, in which gods, dwarfs, giants and humans stumble through the detritus of a lost civilization in a futile search for salvation. As stern as a Lutheran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Love Among the Ruins | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

Scholars like Stuhlmacher make no excuses and seek no secularized explanation for the miracles of the New Testament. "The historian has to take into account that Jesus' opponents conceded that he did perform miracles," notes F.F. Bruce of Manchester University in England, a leading evangelical exegete. He adds that if Jesus was God, as he claimed to be, "miracles are what one would expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Who Was Jesus? | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...character flaws in our candidates so as to ensure that, heaven forbid, Jackson or Bush won't make it to the White House? Is it to set forth any coherent idea as to what constitutes "presidential" character? Is it to explore what unique characteristics propel one individual to seek the nation's highest office, while the rest of us demur...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: The Problems of Presidential Pop Psychology | 8/12/1988 | See Source »

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