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...Prentice-Hall; more than 100,000 copies), offers seven commandments for self help. The Four Don'ts: 1) "Don't acquiesce ignobly!" 2) "Don't evade craven-lyi" 3) "Don't .attack vindictively!" 4) "Don't rush rashly!" The Three Do's: 1) "Do grapple courageously!" 2) "Do cooperate creatively!" 3) "Do adventure spiritually!" All of this is achieved by putting oneself in a semihypnotic trance, the main danger of which "is that you might go to sleep." If sleep is evaded, one flips to the front of the book and charts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tranquilizers in Print | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...have astonished him"). But Author Norris writes with more love of buildings than of people. Rhapsodies to the 20-story "thing of beauty" created by Jeff Hanes run murmurously through the book, and the Tower, though defaced by the years and its occupants, never becomes as caitiff or craven as the people who live from its earnings. Sometimes the book's human characters seem as lifeless as statuary against the soaring and vital affirmations built from steel and concrete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Fiction | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...motherly advice that she has a body to sell. She sells it. Comes the dawn, and Gina wants to die. Instead, she keeps going-from one man to another. The principal ones (the time is the mid-'30s) are a fascist police official, who loves her madly, a craven anti-fascist student, whom she loves madly, and a psychopathic brute, who makes love to her madly. All three lovers meet violent deaths, and at movie's end Gina is pregnant (by the student not, as in the novel, by the brute), to face the future alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...fourth place, Leverett will meet her sister college, Timothy Dwight. Using a T formation, Bunny halfback Ray Craven has been successful with a series of optional plays, including a reverse. Leverett has a 3-3-1 record. Charles Janning, running tackle, has done "some fine downfield blocking," according to athletic secretary Dave Nourse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Colleges Meet House Teams in Football Today | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

...eyed, 16-year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly because less than 1% of the U.S.'s 37 million TV sets are equipped for color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Here Comes Hollywood | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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