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Sir: Re your communications cover story [May 14]: the reason I killed myself in January 1970 is because I no longer had privacy in my bathroom, man's last haven for quiet contemplation and omphaloskepsis. When it became mandatory to wear radio receiving sets so that people who had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

It seems that Stella means the white stripes to be perceived in the same plane as the purple stripes, having a prominence equivalent to the color. Once the viewer perceives this equivalence, he is able to see an oscillating dynamism take hold of the picture. The white lines wiggle and...

Author: By Robert E. Abrams, | Title: 3 Modern American Painters | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

Why doesn't Harvard have a SCOPE chapter? The story is rather involved. Originally the Young Democrats agreed to form one but, after several weeks of deliberation and contemplation, decided not to. Peter Weiner, president of the YD's, explained that he had doubts about the project. Had the preselected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Civil Rights Muddle | 4/29/1965 | See Source »

The paintings were full of new objects against the old backgrounds of carnivals and villages and a new, jubilant mood issuing from the familiar figures of lovers and animals. Chagall, an intensely subjective artist, creates a definite atmosphere in each picture, an atmosphere more important than any experiment with composition...

Author: By Nancy Moran, | Title: Marc Chagall, Paintings | 4/14/1965 | See Source »

VARIATIONS of this ugly axiom are heard the length of Asia and are as universal as the antagonisms they express. The continent's greatest single cause of turmoil is not the struggle for food or political power but simple-and not so simple-hatred among peoples, classes, races. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: DISCRIMINATION & DISCORD IN ASIA | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

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