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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a warmer Jefferson than Americans are accustomed to. It is also a far more precise man, one for whom phrases like "the pursuit of happiness" were not decorative rhetoric but exact formulas. He thought that happiness was a measurable commodity, that in a science of man, human life could be geared to natural law and to the intricacy and precision of the universe. Similarly, when Jefferson wrote that all men are created equal, Wills believes, he had in mind not some vague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost Language | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Through intense suffering our country [Russia] has now achieved a spiritual development of such intensity that the Western system in its present state of spiritual exhaustion does not look attractive. After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor and by intolerable music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Solzhenitsyn: Decline of the West | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Iceberg Menace in Alaska | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

While Paxton may have the putting touch of a Swiss watchmaker, he can also powder the ball with the best of them. In the warmer climes of Paducah he regularly drives 280-290 yards. In a practice round before the NCAA Qualifying Tournament, he hit a humongous seven-iron onto a 228-yard par-three ninth hole...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The Man From Paducah | 5/16/1978 | See Source »

Coach Peter Felske took his eight top players on the jaunt to warmer climes in an effort to build up team unity and give the number seven and eight players some extra match experience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ... While Racquetwomen Go 4-2 On Cruise Through Carolina | 4/3/1978 | See Source »

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