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The onset of standard time comes like some Calvinist retribution, the sudden blue hour of premature evening when for reasons of custom the nation is condemned to go home in darkness.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Seize the Day | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

A bleak altar half hidden by incense smoke holds down the front of the stage. Shaman figures appear, chanting to a kind of voodoo drumbeat. On the altar, the body of a child is laid. The darkness is pierced by a primal scream. A priest plunges his hand into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bleeding Life | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

Still, couples in their 20s reported that they make love on an average of five times a week, apparently excluding Mondays and Tuesdays, while those in their 50s have intercourse nine times a month. For 24% the sexual act itself lasts 15 to 44 minutes, far longer than the five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Never on Monday | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

The Nixon people understand better than any of us that the sun has gone. They are glad of it-it was always too bright-and because they are glad of the darkness. Nixon and his gang of moles have known best how to lead and comfort the millions of Americans...

Author: By David R. Ignatius, | Title: How to Re-Elect an Armadillo | 11/3/1972 | See Source »

- A man who lost his wife and children cannot sleep without a light burning; darkness is an unbearable reminder of the moment when the electric power failed just before water struck his house.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: After the Deluge | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

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