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...theology of the Nation of Islam is significantly different from that of orthodox Islam, which has never been sure whether to recognize Muhammad's U.S. variant. Its black-supremacy views conflict with Islam's racial tolerance. Islam's fundamental tenet is that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed was his Messenger; the Black Muslims believe that Fard was Allah incarnate and that Elijah Muhammad was his Messenger. The Black Muslims deride the orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Messenger Passes | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...binationalism, I think some variant of it is unquestionably preferable to the current ethnocentric and chauvinistic exclusivism which informs the fundamental character of the Israeli state today. And I am not bothered on bit by the failure of the Palestinian groups to endorse binationalism. My hunch is, however, that in time and with the right kind of U.S. military and economic presence in the Middle East (a presence quite different from the tendentious design Prof. Walzer has in mind) the Palestinian leadership will more readily recognize the equity of a binationalist solution than the Israeli leadership. Martin Kilson

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY HUNCH | 3/8/1975 | See Source »

...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byron's Wooden Leg | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

...found Professor Walzer's remarks on the need for a long-run U.S. presence in the Middle East rather curious, partly because he used the phrase "learn[ing] the right lessons from the Vietnam War." This is a variant of the phrase "learning the wrong lessons [from the Vietnam war]" which happened to be the title of an editorial by the new editors of The New Republic (Feb. 1st) in which a tortuous argument is offered in defense of the irresponsible proposal by Prof. Robert Tucker of Johns Hopkins University for a U.S. military seizure of the Arabian oilfields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YANKEE STAY HOME | 2/21/1975 | See Source »

Since his Godfather II role was Sicilian to its mol ten core, he spent six weeks in Sicily mastering not only the regional dialect but a specific local variant. Challenged to play the young immigrant who would become the Godfather already denned by Marlon Brando, De Niro armed himself with a video tape of Brando's performance. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I want ed to make it believable that I could be him as a young man. I would see some little movements that he would do and try to link them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Quiet Chameleon | 1/27/1975 | See Source »

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