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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reformation, straining to meet its Luther at a yet undiscovered cathedral door. Some hail it as an evolutionary crisis, with the cells of the old humanity fairly bursting to reassemble into some more spiritual new being. To others it may be a more prosaic phenomenon, the inevitable swing of the pendulum, the return to some forgotten truths-or to dangerous superstitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Second Thoughts About Man | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...racquetmen start the season with a Southern swing over Spring vacation to Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina...

Author: By Andrew P. Corty, | Title: Masterson Takes a Little Jump Into the Air As Tennis Team Readies for Winning Season | 3/23/1973 | See Source »

Harvard, which finished a disappointing 3-8 last year, scrimmages the New England Lacrosse Club March 28, but opens official competition April 2, with a four-game southerly swing. The Crimson will face perennial power Navy and last year's seventh-ranked Rutgers, in addition to Franklin and Marshall and Adelphi...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Stickmen, Weak at Midfield, To Face Stiff Ivy Competition | 3/20/1973 | See Source »

...bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only the old folks in Shanghai look at the foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: A Reporter Revisits Shanghai | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

...last week that the undercover mutterings of Japan came out into the open. The Japanese feel left out and uninformed. While Henry Kissinger has paid three visits to Japan, Richard Nixon has yet to go. Kissinger's latest Asian swing included three days (19 hours of meetings) in Hanoi and four days (21½ hours of meetings) in Peking, but he stopped in Japan for only a day (2½ hours of meetings), and it seemed almost like an afterthought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Your Best Friends Won't Tell You | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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