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...known that "eight years ago" (actually, it was 1954), he was operated on for the removal of a cancerous kidney, an area in which malignancy is fatal 63% of the time. "They gave me eight months to live," he said. "Somehow I survived. The Lord chooses the foolish to confound the wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...faith and theology. Here, unity will be hard to find and "will be derived from shared Biblical study rather than from agreements on formulation of doctrine." But the path toward union is unpredictable, he added. "We must pray in faith that the Holy Spirit will intervene with power to confound our predictions based upon calculations of our own resources and efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecumenism: An Architect's Warning | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

Lights & Inner Tubes. But try to catch one. No fish has a greater ability to bewilder, bedevil, confuse and confound a fisherman, and none, pound for pound, fights harder. Because it inhabits exposed tidal flats, the bonefish is a nervous wreck-always on the lookout for enemies, spooking at the shadow of a bird overhead, fleeing in panic from the sound of a beer can being opened. Ever so stealthily, the bonefisherman tiptoes across the flats, taking care not to step on sting rays, his freshly baited hook (live shrimp is tasty) all ready, his eyes peeled for a waving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Fox of the Flats | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...soft comforting sounds that ooze from Muzak's speakers are heard each day by more than 60 million people-in hospitals and mortuaries, elevators and space capsules, prisons and jute mills. It even plays during all top secret conferences in the Pentagon, where its mission is to confound eavesdroppers by drowning out all the secret talk. If there is something faintly Chaplinesque in all this, it escapes the Muzak men, whose simple aim is to bring out the best in people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background Music: But It's Good for You | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...confusions of the scenario inevitably confound the actors. Burton staggers around looking ghastly and spouting irrelevance, like a man who suddenly realizes that he has lost his script and is really reading some old sides from King of Kings. And in the big love scenes "the ne'er-lust-wearied Antony" seems strangely bored-as if perhaps he had rehearsed too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just One of Those Things | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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