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...shape into a good fantasy novel. Instead of focusing on a few key symbols and investing them with emotion, he throws them together and mixes them up, like a Chinese chef tossing ingredients into a wok. Bloom allots most of his characters at least one dream in each chapter, filled with mystic beasts and numbers and events. The symbolic overkill is sure to lose all but the most persistent reader, and confuse the author's theories as well...
This story is the latest chapter in TIME'S half-century tradition of reducing to comprehensible dimensions subjects that readers might find dauntingly broad and perplexing. That practice began with a 1928 look at The American People, and has in recent years included Judaism (1972), Capitalism (1975) and Socialism (1978). Islam merited such treatment, says Associate Editor Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the main cover story, because "the Iranian revolution has made it especially important for Westerners to understand the driving energy and devotion Islam commands from so many." Correspondent Dean Brelis was given a vivid example of that devotion...
...raged in the IAB last night as amateur boxers from the Boston and New York areas battled before a crowd of 800 in eight bouts to benefit the Boston chapter of the Leukemia Foundation...
...brief pit-stop for dinner at Lowell House. Add those hopes to Jackson's personal desire (as a former high school boxer at Fordham Prep in New York City) to "bring boxing back to Harvard," and you have the ingredients that produced tonight's fundraiser for the Boston chapter of the Leukemia Society. (Three dollar tickets are available at the door or at 60 Boylston...
...fire in the border war between Marxist, Moscow-leaning South Yemen and moderate, pro-Saudi North Yemen. For the Saudis, the importance of the cease-fire was that it had been negotiated and resolved by the Arabs. The President's visit to Cairo and Jerusalem was only another chapter in what they sadly call Jimmy Carter's "hopeless Camp David mission...