Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dreary and unelevating. His people are Celtic monsters, encumbered by the squalor of their enormous burden of fleshly life-enormous because it is so detailed-and the dreadful, slow, image-spawning of their literal minds . . . One can see that, in Joyce's imitators, the interior monologue was a blow for democracy, a rather dreary one; the fact that we all have a garrulous unconscious that is occupied with absurd free associations, wipes out differences of character and status, for Jack's drooling is as good as his master...
...TIME Room, where cover blow-ups and gold-and-black clocks hung from the ceiling on brightly colored ribbons, pretty debutantes called their requests for songs to four pianists while their escorts paid a papier-mache piper $1 a tune. There, too, handsome matrons and visiting celebrities accepted the invitation on a sign, "See yourself on the cover of TIME," smiling at themselves in small mirrors bearing the TIME logotype and familiar red border...
Alumni booster clubs and similar athletic recruiting bodies were dealt an economic blow last week when the Internal Revenue Bureau ended their tax free status. Athletic scholarships as such were not affected, but the bureau will tax alumni monies used to pay for campus visits of prospective athletes...
...Choice: Slow Down or Blow...
...take vacations every quarter instead of once a year. In the obituary columns, the insurance-company graphs, and in the companies' own performances, the results show: the most valuable and most successful men in U.S. business are the ones who have taught themselves to slow down before they blow...