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...style of life and state of being it celebrates. Both communicate a lusty enthusiasm. The fresh Air ("Welcome, sulfur dioxide, Hello, carbon monoxide"), the moving Frank Mills ("I love him, but it embarrasses me to walk down the street with him"), and the optimistic greeting to the age of Aquarius ("No more falsehoods or derisions, golden living dreams of visions") are engaging enough to draw listeners of any age to the junior side of the generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sep. 6, 1968 | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

...notoriously superstitious. Their favorite is astrology, the pseudo-scientific 5,000-year-old Babylonian art of prediction by analyzing the effect of the planets. France's Jeanne Moreau, for instance, lets it be known that she has her astral reading done annually, because "as an artist and an Aquarius, I especially need reassuring." Comedian Dick Gregory carries something called Moon Sign Book and consults it regularly before making any major decision, on the theory that "all I believe in is Nature, and all of Nature is in the book." Actress Rosemary Harris says that she was overjoyed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: Back in with the Black Arts | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...charity affair, to raise money for Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's annual Festival of Two Worlds in the medieval town north of Rome, was capped by a "Parade of the Zodiac" hat show. And there they came, trooping top-heavily across the stage: Actress Joan Fontaine as Aquarius, the Water Bearer; Mrs. Marion Javits, wife of New York Senator Jacob Javits, as Capricorn, the Goat; Justine and Lily Gushing, daughters of slick Ski Resort Operator Alexander Gushing, as Gemini, the twins in yellow silk sheaths and sequin-studded grey turbans. To be sure that the headgear crushed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 23, 1962 | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and a supposedly invisibly body called Khetu moved into a position within 16 degrees of each other at 7:05 a.m. Saturday. Although some people born under the sign of Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) have interpreted the phenomena as a personal threat, Saturday's Boston Globe Star Gazer would only reveal that the day was "beneficial to domestic settlements and intimate affairs," for Aquaril...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: World Has Not Ended Yet This Morning | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

...believe that brevity is the soul of musical wit. "In fifty or a hundred years,'' he says, "the symphonies of Beethoven and even Honegger will seem like endless repetitions." How does he feel about his own work? "I was born," says Constant, "under the sign of Aquarius. Far be it from me to suggest a comparison, but it was Mozart's sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer with Punch | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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