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When musicologists of the future start rummaging through the LP artifacts of the '60s, they will be able to discern several distinct phases in the stylistic evolution of the Beatles. Rubber Soul (1966) was the last album of their archaic period, blending the best kind of rock naivete with a mastery of simple forms. Sgt. Pepper (1967) represents the Beatles at their classic moment, fusing the pop spirit and an astoundingly eclectic range of sounds into a harrowing but harmonious whole. Their double-disk album called simply The Beatles, which has just been released in the U.S.,* may well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Mannerist Phase | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...questions, often highly personal, while clutching two tin cans wired to an "E-meter," an electrical gadget reputed to be also capable of communicating with inanimate objects (in one such experiment Hubbard was in touch with tomatoes). By watching the fluctuations of a needle, Scientologist "auditors" can supposedly discern when a student has become "clear" and has attained "total awareness and freedom.'' Students attempting to drop out before becoming "clear" have been subjected to hard-sell pitches advising them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: Meddling with Minds | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Whether the substance of the assembly will prove as avant-garde as its style remains to be seen. But the World Council's General Secretary Eugene Carson Blake warned that "the ecclesiastical establishment worldwide had better look hard to try to discern what God is now requiring of us as we are disturbed by the rods of anger." Added Ceylon's Pastor Niles: "Everywhere in our world today events are taking place which reveal that God is doing a new thing among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: New Things at Uppsala | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Along with Alka-Seltzer, Volkswagen, Avis, and Chun King chow mein pointed the way. If critics were to categorize commercials in the manner of plays or films (and why not?), they would find a variety of styles and sub-styles. For a start, one can discern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...attempting to discern the validity of these two alternatives, I undertook to answer two questions: How do the people of Cambridge feel about birth control and family planning? What is the role of the physician in giving birth control information? For my inquiry I chose census tract 15, bounded by Western Ave., Putnam Ave. and Green Street. This area ranks slightly high (about the 66th percentile) in social disorder and inadequate living conditions. Students and professors are widely dispersed among lower and middle class families, 37 per cent non-white and 14 per cent foreign-born. The sample...

Author: By Judy Bruce, (THE AUTHOR IS A RADCLIFFE SENIOR) | Title: Birth Control In Cambridge | 4/27/1968 | See Source »

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