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He must consent to a dreadful and irreparable pillage of his deepest self. Something dies in him. Some part of humanness will wither from such close contact with the opposite of humanness--the essence of evilness; and it is rarely, if ever, revitalized.

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Out, Out Damn Spot | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

STEINBECK HAD a lifelong fascination with love and sex, but he never really trusted love. At one point he wrote, "A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love witm her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of...

Author: By Stephen J. Chapman, | Title: Tools of Loneliness | 2/26/1976 | See Source »

The proposed draft provides for three separate marriage services. In the first and more traditional Celebration and Blessing of a Marriage, the minister's charge to the couple makes no mention of "the dreadful day of judgment." The second is a shorter, simplified civil service, and the third version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A New Prayer Book | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

The connections are of imagery as well as of hand writing. An essential, indeed an obsessive, side of Goya is disclosed in the drawings on show by that master: blind beggars, stumpy as turnips, caterwauling for alms in the street; an old woman mumbling to her cat; a man in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Morgan's New Riches | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

At Thanksgiving, most retailers were talking about a 10% gain in dollar sales over the dreadful 1974 Yuletide showing. Instead, it is now clear that the gain was at least 12%, and possibly as high as 14% or 15%. Since consumer prices were about 7% higher at the start of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAILING: Santa the Supersalesman | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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