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...Wales: "Lying through sheer laziness on the warm shore, my eye became riveted to what it would-some sea-eroded rocks, for instance, which I would notice were reproducing precisely in miniature the form of the inland hills. These and other things delighted me: the twisted gorse on the cliff edge, twigs like snakes lying in the path, the bare rock ... I found that I could express what I felt only by paraphrasing what I saw ... I learned that landscape was not necessarily scenic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Say It with Thorns | 8/3/1953 | See Source »

Murder or Not? Vercors' question comes up when British scientists discover in New Guinea a large tribe of cliff-dwellers. Paranthropus ("tropi" for short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Zoological Satire | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Gene Mann, who provided the top match on Saturday with an 8-6, 9-11, 6-2 victory off Cliff Worthy of Army is at four against Williams. Don Bossart and Alex Heagler round...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Defeats Army As All Singles Players Win | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...Angeles area. For ten days they swam, sailed, necked, danced, drank, clogged traffic with their cars. Up the coast at Palos Verdes, a youthful promoter got a big crowd of youngsters at a dollar a head to watch a gasoline-drenched jalopy set afire and pushed off a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Visigoths | 4/20/1953 | See Source »

...rather steep comedown-in the end he jumps off a cliff. John, a much wiser young squire, gets home to England, where all ends with a nice, bucolic chirrup: "The kingcups and the wild daffodils were out in the water meadows; from the dovecot came the sudden passion and stir of wings." And Elfrida, the girl John left behind him, "had grown tall; under the sun she showed satin-fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mildly Mock-Archaic | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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