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...likes to think that the CRIMSON BOOKSHELF is rather like a dirigible, which, pumped full of a light and heady Gas that, though adhering to the Laws of the eminent Boyle and the estimable Charles, has, nevertheless, that unfettered property which given materialistic Science--now soi-disant Mistress of all Nature, but once the scullery maid of the great scholastic Doctors, who in their wisdom, their prescience and their closeness to the truths of the human Heart did not denigrate those Books of non-cumulative Knowledge (among which one may number the most precious Jewels in the Diadem of Civilization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLIMP | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...space, Dr. Wilcox sugests a stream of homey news from earth, and televised views of moms and sweethearts. Where such therapy does not sufice, he believes that a therapist should keep in communication with the crew by microphone and loudspeaker. Ever-present and all-hearing, he will watch from disant earth for the first warning signs of a psychological storm-to-come. By the technique of group therapy he can smooth ruffled feelings and try to keep peace on the spaceship all the way to Mars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tranquilized in Space | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...expected to pay for them. The H.A.A. should be severely curtailed in its operation. Harvard should follow the University of Chicago's approximate twenty year lead and abolish football which is a farce and no game for a gentleman. The compulsory Physical Training program, besides violating the soi disant "freedom of a great university," is an unjustifiable expense. Biddies are a luxury most of us would be sorry to see removed, but if a higher education is to be indirectly refused capable students through the expense of this admirable old institution, they, too, should go. Felix Cayo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Save What's Left | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

...with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total of three times. Last week they fooled the guessers and went again, beamed from the "Royal Box" of the soi-disant "Theatre Royal in Drury Lane," while a frantic audience waved programs and sang "God Save the King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...long since cast his sympathies against the rebels and on the side of squarejawed, gnarled-fisted President of Mexico Senor Emilio Portes Gil. Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under no circumstances" would the State Department recognize the soi-disant and really nonexistent Valenzuela government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: 15 Days to Live? | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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