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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have brought together Lichtenberg's observations and witticisms written over a period covering roughly 35 years of his life, from 1764 to 1799. During most of this period, Lichtenberg resided at Gottingen University, as a professor of mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both...

Author: By Walter S. Rowland, | Title: George Lichtenberg: the Master Of Aphorism Links Wit, Insight | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

The author of Tea and Sympathy has written a kind of Elegy in a Country Bedroom, an evening-long unburdening of troubled hearts and sluicing of wistful memories. Much of it is honestly evocative and well expressed. A sensitive Henry Fonda and an appealing Barbara Bel Geddes do well by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays on Broadway, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

A sometime window washer with a personality greatly appealing to himself ("I am such a sweet little guy"), Tom Clay first went to work as a record spinner at Detroit's WJBK two years ago. What happened to him thereafter until he was fired last week makes a typical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Out of a job at week's end (he is appealing to the State Tenure Commission), Worley was not sorry for his stand. "Controls by administrators," said he, "are a scab on a festering sore that hinders imaginative teaching." Twelve parents promptly hired him to tutor their children. Scholar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Down with Paper Work | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

(3) Our impact on the uncommitted depends not only on the level of our economic aid but equally importantly on the dynamism and conviction of our domestic performance. It is with respect to the latter that I said that the present pedantry in the West is not likely to prove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLARIFICATION | 12/1/1959 | See Source »

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