Word: cans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Birth control can't possibly be the answer to any of our problems. A society that stops breeding stops living, both intellectually and, eventually, physically. The human race cannot grow by limiting itself.
TIME'S cynical theater reviewer is not only deaf to The Sound of Music, he must also suffer from a basic inability to enjoy some of life's simple pleasures [Nov. 30]. If Mary Martin can ever be "a little too lovable," I want to be there!
The fate of local amusement-type pinball machines still remains in doubt. The Cambridge Licensing Board's recent announcement that it will not renew pinball licenses applies to the bino-type machine, a gambling type on which money can be won.
But is this a suitable way to approach the problem of honorary degrees? Beauty, after all, "is a vain and doubtful good," and in the matter of beauty contests we would need to feel no shame at turning away from our own time and burrowing into the past. But honorary...
But what would we do for the next fifty years? Our predecessors did not seal up their choices, but we can still benefit by their wisdom and turn our attention to the leaders of the past. This June the world should hear again the names of those chosen in 1910...