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...shot fired behind him without his being forewarned of it. The frightened reaction can be shot now and cut into the screen version. Nothing more strikingly shows that art has left the realm of the 'beautiful semblance' which, so far, had been taken to be the only sphere where art could thrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Wars | 7/17/1978 | See Source »

...just that. During Cyrus Vance's mission to Moscow in April, a Russian listened with annoyance as a visitor from Washington remonstrated with him about Soviet intervention in Africa. Finally the Russian interrupted angrily: "How can you Americans complain so self-righteously about what we are doing outside your sphere of influence when you are making mischief right in our own front yard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter tries a new tack toward Eastern Europe | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Consequently, another area of church-state conflict falls within the sphere of cultural revolution in Africa. African nationalism wants to find a religious alternative to Christianity. A few countries are turning to Islam, but the overwhelming preference is for a return to African traditional religions...

Author: By Canon BURGESS Carr, | Title: African Churches in Conflict | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

There have been few moments in my athletic career more satisfying than putting an orange golf ball into the mouth of a wooden Tyrannosaurus and seeing the little orange sphere roll out of the dinosaur's rear end into the cup for a hole...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: The Crimson Sports Guide to Florida: | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

...philosophy is to try to make this evolution while maintaining the confidence of the white man, to try to get him staying here and making a contribution, particularly in the economic sphere. We are trying to produce something different here in Rhodesia. A country which will stand on its own feet, perhaps unique in Africa, where the white man will continue to make a contribution, to work with the black. We can work together. This is the whole philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Putting Down the Burden | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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