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...Modern woman has decided to understand sexuality, to include it knowingly in her universe without letting herself be carried away by it, to welcome it like a domesticated animal which she can yoke to her uses, not like a savage force . . . Does this presage the end of great passions? Perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Religion? | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...West, the side-wheel steamship that was standing up the Charleston channel on Jan. 9, 1861 when it became the first target of the Civil War. A story on page 2 lists the principal Southern forts; on the back cover, Ballou Brothers, a New York concern, offers French yoke shirts at $12 a dozen. Nothing in the magazine could be considered timely, but last week 1,600 subscribers studied it as avidly as their morning papers. What they were reading was a faithful reproduction of Harper's Weekly, a 19th century publication that rose and prospered more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Faithful Reproduction | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

ADMETUS, King of Pherae, was com- peting with other royal suitors for the hand of Pelias' daughter Alcestis. Pelias promised his daughter to the man who could yoke a wild boar and a lion to his chariot and drive them around a race course. Admetus ap pealed for help to Apollo, who tamed a wild team that Admetus drove to victory to win Alcestis. See Music, Mommy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 19, 1960 | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...regime. As I will try to show, the governments as well as the workers and peasants of Latin America are firmly behind the Cuban Revolution and Castro. Indeed, there are not a few people in certain countries of Latin America who wish that they too could throw off the yoke of a tyrannical government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUBAN PROBLEM | 11/25/1960 | See Source »

...Havana's underground, the anti-Red Popular Revolutionary Movement, headed by Castro's former Works Minister Manolo Ray, issued a manifesto: "Under the pretext of freeing us from Yankee imperialism, we have been encircled with the yoke of Russian imperialism. Cubans! Rescue the Revolution from those who have betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Crises: Phony & Real | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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