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...hoist history from ancient submerged towns such as Epidauros, which disappeared in a tidal wave off Yugoslavia in A.D. 365. Last week a Methodist minister and sometime oceanographer from Kansas City donned an Aqua-Lung and plunged into the Dead Sea-avowedly in search of the lost cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Further, "the attention of modern man familiar with the discoveries of nuclear physics must be struck by the Biblical description of Sodom and Gomorrah." The Soviet co-authors "transcribed" the Biblical passage into modern language and decided that the columns of smoke, the fire and brimstone that destroyed the cities resulted from the blast "caused by the cosmonauts, who, before takeoff, arranged to blow up dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Enoch & Other Cosmonauts | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Bible Disneyland | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

...Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...flowered wall-paper.) Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts and graduate schools. She wrote advice to the love-lorn. Those twin sisters of feminine freedom--Adultery and Alimony--turned suburbia into Sodom and rendered Scollay Square passe...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Case Against Woman | 7/31/1958 | See Source »

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