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...Trusting bastards like you are the ones who get it," said the young man angrily. " 'I like Kukes,' said the Meiklejohns. So he's dead and his wife has only half a face. Bowyer liked Kukes; they ripped him up in his bath, and we had hell's own job to stop his bowels going down the drain. Bingley and Ferguson trusted Kukes; they're both dead. Gibson said his Kuke servants would warn him if he was in danger; who let Gibson's murderers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF MURDER & MUDDLE: A Report from Kenya | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...energetic environment valve in which the Fullers flux-ate when Bucky is at home is definitely non-Dymaxion and infra-geodesic: a two-room Queens apartment with bath and kitchenette such as might have served a young couple beginning married life modestly in 1912. The living room is furnished in a combination of advanced geometric shapes and Chinese prints; there are some books, a head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personality, Jan. 19, 1953 | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...Well," said the priest once again. "A clean man and a dirty man were each offered a bath. Now, which would take it?" "Ah," answered his flock with sudden inspiration, "both." "No, no," said the priest, "neither would take it, because the one was already clean and the other preferred his dirt. Now, for the last time, which man would take the bath?" "Neither," answered his congregation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Now You Know | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...wrong again," said the priest. "Both would take the bath, because the clean man liked to bathe and the dirty one needed to. Now do you understand dialectical materialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Now You Know | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...they performed their purification prayers. Thomas threw some water into the air himself, and it hung suspended in the form of sparkling flowers. Tradition continues that most of the Brahmans embraced Christianity on the spot, and that the rest fled. To this day, no orthodox Brahman will take a bath in Palur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Thomas in India | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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