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Students of her art will remember that Novelist Metalious interleaved the gummier passages of her first book with hearty descriptive exercises celebrating the passage of the seasons among the granite hills, and that in the second book all this rhetoric was removed. The excision not only left the characters squirming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of P.P. Rides Again | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

A quality of delusion penetrates every detail of the picture, as though it were not intended to represent a reality but a nightmare. The entire film was photographed at night in what seems to be the crypt of a cathedral. The ceilings are so low that much of the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

Sir: Sir Julian Huxley's "New-Time Religion" [Dec. 7] will have to wait for our grandchildren. As existing religions gained their momentum in an age of ignorance, they still flourish in an age of misinformation. We live in our own little worlds of delusion, content with our processes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

The Technological Trap. For FAO's Binay Sen, the prime answer to the world's hunger lies not in birth rate or food giveaways but in the diffusion of advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The First Battle | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

This reshaping may take many different forms. One of the most common is the emphasis upon the irrational, elemental parts of Protestant worship as parts of group psychology. Many Harvard Square ministers call this the "Soc. Rel." approach to religion--students will become interested in Protestantism as an illustration of...

Author: By Claude E. Welch jr., | Title: Harvard Protestants Lose Faith Under Rational Impact of College | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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