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...sharpest choice ever between the old political style and the new. There was bulbous Premier Suleyman Demirel, 51, speaking to a partisan crowd of 70,000 in Istanbul's Taksim Square and denouncing opposition leaders as "dangerous coddlers of Communism and anarchy. To vote for such people is a sin, sin, sin." His supporters roared back the ancient Ottoman chant: "Suleyman the Magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Suleyman the Troubled | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...when struck by a falling fruit. Result: a new brand of physics that relocated us even farther from the godhead-and a reverse anthropomorphism that saw the human body as a machine. Today Adam Smith implies the West has an urge to work its way back, past technology, past sin itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Head Game | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...moral people are explicitly religious nor are all religious people moral. But the founding leaders no less than the Puritans, connected vice with sin, virtue with godliness. In his Farewell Address, George Washington said of the tie: "Religion and morality are indispensable supports ... great Pillars of human happiness ... [the] firmest props of the duties of Men & citizens ... And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bicentennial Essay: Vice and Virtue: Our Moral Condition | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah remain as mute evidence of the judgment of God on this sin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 6, 1975 | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...Kubacki had committed his first cardinal sin--bragging, or what he thinks is bragging. He tries to absolve himself, but, alas, it is too late for modesty...

Author: By Amy Sacks, | Title: Kubacki: Rushing Harvard to the Top | 10/3/1975 | See Source »

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