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...Catholics tend to educate their children less well, are less successful in business, according to Notre Dame Sociologist Dr. John J. Kane [TIME, Jan. 10] ? In only three fields is eminence achieved: religion, law and education. Would that America's progress were confined to the "creep" pace of religion, law and its observances and education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...Kane's conclusions: "Catholics creep forward rather than stride forward in American society, and the position of American Catholics in the mid-20th century is better, but not so much better, than it was a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Creeping Forward? | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

Strange hallucinations, like waking dreams, creep into their minds. The students see patterns of dots or lines. Then, as the empty hours drag on, livelier visions appear. They may see rows of little yellow men with black caps and open mouths, or a procession of squirrels with sacks on their backs marching across the snow. The students have reported seeing prehistoric animals, weird cities, a pair of disembodied hands coming out of the ground. One student saw a set of gigantic false teeth floating down a river on a raft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Twilight of the Brain | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

Meanwhile, he waged a long, stubborn, personal war of rebellion at Warner Bros, to escape from one-dimensional gangster roles. During one of his numerous suspensions, he told New York newsmen that Jack Warner was a "creep." On his return the mogul telephoned his actor and sorrowfully took him to task. "Jack." he replied, "you don't even know what I mean by creep." Said Warner: "Yes, I do-I've got a dictionary right before me. It means loathsome, crawling thing." "But Jack," said Bogart, "I spell it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Survivor | 6/7/1954 | See Source »

...excepting only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: In The Lion's Mouth | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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