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Dialogue 5. 3 (Fall 1970): 96–99 Marvin S Hill was responding to Fawn Brodie’s lecture at the Hotel Utah in 1970 called “Can We Manipulate the Past?” Her point in giving it was she […]
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Dialogue 8. 3/4 (1973): 109–126 To answer that question we needed to create some instruments with which we could gather the data. We are currently engaged in that instrument-building phase. As one step in […]
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