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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what's good for you. Bob Marley is just the same as Paul McCartney, only he's from Funky Kingston, which is just South of Liverpool, and he's been high all of his life, on ganja, that is, which is this substance which people from South of Liverpool worship by smoking it a lot. Reggae, which is the stuff BobMarley and his Wailers play, is the same as what the Beatles played, only a lot better, and the words, whatever words you can hear, actually mean something, something more than I wantoholdyourhand. Oh, and by the way, the stress...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: Rock | 4/22/1976 | See Source »

Despite this evidence of hero worship, Nixon was not close to Ziegler-or, really, to anyone. Certainly, he did not feel that he could confide in his new Vice President. In fact, Nixon was convinced that Gerald Ford was incapable of ever assuming the presidency. Still, his political advisers, including Barry Goldwater, pushed for Ford to replace the denounced Vice President, Spiro Agnew. After choosing Ford with considerable reluctance, Nixon turned to Goldwater and snapped: "Here's the damn pen I signed Jerry Ford's nomination with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Further Notes on Nixon's Downfall | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...skeptics understand that Transcendental Meditation [March 1] should be no more controversial than push-ups or situps? If you want to become stronger, you exercise; if you want to become more relaxed, you meditate. Let's not blow this thing out of proportion with talk of "Hinduism," "worship" and "pantheistic deity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...know no meditator who regards his practice as a religion. But I do know many people who worship money. May be we should ban the teaching of economics in our schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...possessed in Hostage to the Devil all make conscious choices to turn away from Christian teachings. A priest, misled by his worship of the rational methods of science, doubts the basis of Christ's divinity; a transexual distorts the meaning of gender and of love; and a young coed rejects the Catholic verities and asserts there is no difference between good and evil, "that all values are subject only to one's personal preference." The degree to which each person is demonically possessed differs. Martin is careful, however, to only suggest reasons for possession; he maintains that Satan's actual...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Out, Out Damn Spot | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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