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The phrases "there is no health in us" and "miserable offenders" are excised from the General Confession. Contrition has been cut back elsewhere. In the marriage service the couple is no longer charged with having to answer for any impediment to their marriage "at the dreadful day of judgment when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle of the Prayer Books | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

Some plays are the comic books of the theater. All of their characters are caricatures. Their situations have the labeled banality of canned clichés. The dialogue is Cro-Magnon English. In scene after scene the ludicrous and the dreadful intersect at some flash point where the playgoer'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: T.K.O. | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

Migration is Galbraith's most controversial solution to poverty. He brushes aside the possibility that those the least willing to tolerate poverty are probably the ones who through their energy and motivation are the most able to help their poverty-stricken brethren. Ireland is the classic case where the able...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: The Starving and the Poor | 4/11/1979 | See Source »

American mini-blitz on behalf of their new album Give 'Em Enough Rope: ten days, seven cities, stretching from Berkeley to New York, stirring up waters that flow far too free and easy. "American audiences like music to keep you happy," observes Drummer Nicky ("Topper") Headon. "It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Best Gang in Town | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

The connotations are dreadful: imagine a roomful of women sitting around, bitching about oppression and violence directed at them by that lowly creation--man. I am happy to report that such a scene bears no resemblance to any portion of the Smith conference!

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: R.U.S. Image | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

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