Word: aug
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to your Aug. 30 article under the heading "Seance in Connecticut": You have quoted me as saying that Dali and Picasso are monkeys. As I do not mean to doubt the veracity of your art editor, it is evident that there was a misunderstanding because of my difficulty in expressing myself in English. I believe, and said so, that the young artists who think they are saying something new by changing their style or type of painting-as Dali and Picasso have done-are monkeys. This is strictly what I intended to convey...
...Reader Streitz look at the Aug. 30 issue again. And for a plain and simpler Tanguy...
...mother of two ... I have watched magazine after magazine plug one psychiatric view after another on child behavior-all, as Dr. Hilde Bruch points out [TIME, Aug. 30], without any scientific proof whatsoever . . . As the result, parents are in total confusion . . . Scout leaders report behavior in ten-and twelve-year-olds that usually was relegated to the nursery-school level. But discipline? Ah, that's a dirty word and used only to describe the old Prussian army . . . But the greatest loss of all has been good, old-fashioned common sense. Without this, the genius becomes stupid in society...
...Tory government was in a hurry, for unless some quick solution could be found for German rearmament, its Labor opponents might be tempted to cash in on the mounting Germanophobia being whipped up in Britain (TIME, Aug. 23). Sir Winston Churchill snorted that it was time for "action, not talk"; the London Times brooded that unless "something is done," future generations might remember August 1954 "as almost as dark a date for Europe as August...
...suitcase a detailed plan of Saadabad Palace, the Shah's summer home, and a complete schedule of the guards' movements. There were other papers, mostly in three codes. Ali, a dedicated Communist, was questioned for eight days before he broke. At last, on the night of Aug. 24, he admitted that the Tudeh had an organization inside the army officers' corps. On Aug. 30, cryptographers cracked two of the codes, but the third, an elaborate trigonometric cipher, would not give. Two colonels went to work night and day, in twelve-hour shifts, and on Sept. 3. code...