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...need to treat Iowa State College so cavalierly? By saying, "those of its citizens who want only a practical education are either drained off to Iowa State College in Ames or simply stay down on the farm," you make Iowa State sound like a one-horse (or cow) institution. Actually, it is among the very finest in the country in engineering, home economics, chemistry and physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...fatherly devotion; Rama, his son and the hero of the tale, for strength of mind, arm and heart; Sita, his wife, for undying faithfulness. Under the guise of restoring the classic, Satirist Aubrey Menen (The Prevalence of Witches, Dead Man in the Silver Market) slyly milks a sacred cow for laughs. His freewheeling and irreverent Ramayana is a mock epic that owes less to its original author, the Hindu poet Valmiki, than it does to Voltaire's Candide and Boccaccio's Decameron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hindu Mock Epic | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

Feature Attraction. In Alicante, Spain, a cow broke loose on its way to the slaughterhouse, roamed into a movie house where a 3-D film was playing, wandered undisturbed around the front of the theater for ten minutes before the customers realized it was not part of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1954 | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...Senator, largely because of the tax issue) found little to indicate that honesty is a popular policy. The reports were about the same as ever, e.g., in all of the farm and ranch country of Arthur and Banner Counties, not one taxpayer admitted that he owned a cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: The Unresponsive Patient | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

...kneeling cow, which conveys at once the strain of its unnatural position and the preferability of being human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not Quite Greek | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

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