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People: Jan. 14, 1929
“Names make news.” Last week the following names made the following news: Frederick Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, received a telegram: “Only Elijah has gone farther and longer than the Question Mark .” Retelegraphed Mr. Davison: “Good
Living: Rock Power for Health and Wealth
Manhattan Businessman Richard Perl, 29, has a morning ritual. After dressing, he drops a small crystal into his pocket to enhance his concentration and aid + him in contract negotiations during his workday.
Faith and Healing: A Forum
Three experts–the Rev. George Handzo, a chaplain with the HealthCare Chaplaincy of New York City; Dr
Religion: The Secret of Stelle
Richard Kieninger is a softspoken, bespectacled Chicagoan who believes that he has a holy task—preparing for civilization's destruction. He and his followers are currently building a Noah's Ark community on the Illinois plains, where they hope to survive a series of disasters that they believe lie in store for most of the rest of mankind
Tree Believer: Terrence Malick’s Cinematic Vision
In August 1973, a quiet young courier took a print of Terrence Malick’s debut feature Badlands from Los Angeles to Manhattan for submission to the New York Film Festival. After the screening, festival chief Richard Roud said to the messenger, “Would you please tell Mr
The War Over Patriotism
When critics challenge Barack Obama’s patriotism, his supporters have a ready reply: True patriotism has nothing to do with little flags on politicians’ lapels.
Books: Stained with a Different Darkness
THE CHRONICLE OF THE LODZ GHETTO, 1941-1944 Edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki; translated by Richard Lourie, Joachim Neugroschel and others; Yale; 551 pages; $35Ghetto is an Italian word, but it is defined in German. In 1939 the Third Reich took the obsolete custom of separating Jews from the human community and gave it new meaning
The Nation: NIXON TALKS
He is back among us. And, as always, in a memorable manner, both painful and poignant, sometimes illuminating, usually self-serving
They Had A Plan
Sometimes history is made by the force of arms on battlefields, sometimes by the fall of an exhausted empire. But often when historians set about figuring why a nation took one course rather than another, they are most interested in who said what to whom at a meeting far from the public eye whose true significance may have been missed even by those who took part in it