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...strangely appropriate that this barbed play of ideas is being presented in Columbia University's Havemayer Hall, where some of the physicists whose equations produced the atomic bomb once lectured. The cast is able, and Luckinbill is imposing as the skeptic son of rationalism. This is an auspicious debut for the New York Actors' Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Ideas in Motion | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Jewish sentiment was not unanimous that the Administration should be pushed quite so hard. One important skeptic was Richard Maass, president of the American Jewish Committee, who argued against quarreling with the White House in personal terms. Says he: "It's counterproductive. I think the Carter Administration is as dedicated to the survival of Israel as any previous Administration. My advice to both sides is 'Look, let's cool it.' " The advice is sound. Jewish groups do not want to run the risk of giving the appearance that it's Israel right or wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Unease Among American Jews | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...there, the river stands between us," said a young skeptic named Sam. "What can we do?" But He was not worried, for He had already crossed the Glen and was still Fine. He knew, as he sat on his mule, its front Hoofs dug in water, that He still had leeway. So He turned around and spoke to the swelling number of friends who had gathered for phase two of the miracle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Name's The Game | 3/15/1978 | See Source »

...skeptics on the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal [Dec. 12] who challenge the existence of UFOs, I must ask; Were they there? Did they see what I saw? Eight UFOs in three different sightings and one to five competent witnesses each time. I was a skeptic once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1978 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...Writer Immanuel Velikovsky that the planet Venus was once a comet that swept close to the earth, causing flood, plague and other catastrophes in biblical times; his scenario violates a number of physical laws. In the committee's magazine, a twice-yearly publication called the Zetetic (Greek for skeptic), committee members have also knocked UFOlogy, biorhythms and astrology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attacking the New Nonsense | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

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