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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember the first time I bought tickets to his show. Some trans-sexual, born-again Christian who burns American flags was the guest. Mort just ripped him up like he was a can of Play-Doh. God, it was so [naughty, naughty] beautiful...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

...young man, at one point you were a convinced Communist, a member of the Komsomol. How did you come to change your ideas and become a Christian believer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Prophet In Exile ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...Your ideas of both the Christian faith, in the form of Russian Orthodoxy, and of Russian nationalism have caused some critics to accuse you of being chauvinistic and xenophobic. Are you a Russian nationalist, and what does that mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Prophet In Exile ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...There is technical progress, but this is not the same thing as the progress of humanity as such. In every civilization this process is very complex. In Western civilizations -- which used to be called Western-Christian but now might better be called Western-Pagan -- along with the development of intellectual life and science, there has been a loss of the serious moral basis of society. During these 300 years of Western civilization, there has been a sweeping away of duties and an expansion of rights. But we have two lungs. You can't breathe with just one lung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Prophet In Exile ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...violent deaths, the affliction is not uniquely American. Last week in the French village of Luxiol, near the Swiss border, a farmer with a history of mental illness managed to obtain a hunting gun and went on a shooting spree that lasted 30 minutes. When the rampage was over, Christian Dornier, 31, had murdered 14 people, including his mother and sister, and wounded his father and eight others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France A: Mountain Of Sorrow | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

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