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Bill cared little for school or books, quit New York University after his third year because "I got itchy. I wanted to make a lot of money. I wanted a big car and a lot of clothes." In those years his favorite phrase was: "The masses are asses." After Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Up from the Potato Fields | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

"But every man to his own taste. - Did not Dr. Kunastrokius, that great man, at his leisure hours, take the greatest delight imaginable in combing of asses' tails, and plucking the dead hairs out with his teeth, though he had tweezers always in his pocket? ... De gustibus non est...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Kunastrokicm Point | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sonata for Bolt & Screw | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

John L. Lewis is the most even-tempered man in Big Labor-he is always in, emerging from or entering a mood of righteous fury. But even John L. had a hard time last week thinking up some new way of showing his contempt for the big bosses of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Proper Pitch | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

All this is made easier by Mr. DeMille's ability to make shot after shot bulge with energy. A suggestion about a white-skinned female slave-an angle that first inspired DeMille to make the picture-is played with vigorous naiveté for not-quite-censorable leers and laughs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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