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...here in the Midwest one of these days so I can rescue you from "Eastern isolationism," I'll treat you as you deserve and hire a New York pressagent to bother you until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...years past, there had been 14,500 different tones of wool for the weaver to choose from. Lurçat cut the cumbersome number down to 41 kinds of wool and 13 colors. Unlike most other designers, he does not bother with small preliminary sketches, but attacks the work directly. "Like a surgeon approaching a delicate brain operation," says he, "I have it all in mind." It takes a skilled weaver about a month to produce one square yard of tapestry, which may sell for as much as $400-or, in Lurçat's case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Renaissance in Wool | 7/11/1960 | See Source »

...degradation, the amorality, the absolute horror of the theater today and the stinking emotional climate which surrounds it. We are mostly sick of Tennessee Williams and those who trail gleefully after him. If man has nothing more to say about himself than that he is doomed-why bother? MURIEL MONTEKIO New York City Sir: The attack by Alfred Kazin is off the mark. All creative artists use exaggeration as a tool. This is as true of a Beethoven symphony as of the distorted figure of a Gothic saint as of the distorted pointing finger of Matthias Grunewald. The literary artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...been - a fact that fails to bother its sponsors. Says an Air Force officer involved in the program: "With the Discoverer, we sort of rigged our own public relations trap, because recovery was the last item on our laundry list of objectives. But Discoverer is really the test bed from which an awful lot of earth satellite systems will flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Space Surge | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Ironically, parity was coming just as Canada had solved the worst inconvenience of imparity. Because coins were considered too much bother to discount, U.S. silver has normally been accepted in Canada at its face value. But six weeks ago the volume of incoming coins had reached such proportions-20% of all silver in Canadian circulation-that Canadian banks imposed a discount on U.S. coins-e.g., 2? on a quarter, 4? on a half dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Dollar (Almost) for Dollar | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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