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The language of personal insult flourishes. A zilch is a total loss, and so is a wimp, dimp, dipley nerdly, lizard, gink, barf, scuzz, skag, Jane, lunchbucket, or anyone whose mind is in the soil bank. At the University of North Carolina, last year's fink is this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Slang Bag | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

One look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey promised to open a door onto the most ancient reaches of human civilization. Mellaart treated every crum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Backward into Prehistory | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

The art, selected from 35 nations, is a catholic spread of styles, quite untainted by politics. The reason for the wide variety is that Carnegie Institute's diligent new director, Gustave von Groschwitz, 58, picked the whole shebang by himself. "Von," former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Carnegie's 43rd | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

If the bumper brigade in Harvard Square is any indication of the coming election returns (which it undoubtedly is not), then Lyndon Johnson should get 79 per cent of the vote. In two days of diligent car inspecting, 38 Johnson stickers and 10 Goldwater stickers were seen.

Author: By Iris Shulman, | Title: Curious Consistency Seen Among Cars Who Bear 'Johnson' Bumper Stickers | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

Rumahs Were Rife. Singapore's violence has its roots in old racial antagonisms. When Sir Stamford Raffles founded the colony in 1819, there were virtually no Chinese on the sultry island. But since the native Malays were indolent, the British encouraged diligent, apolitical Chinese to come aboard, and today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia: Amok But Not Asunder | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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