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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laude (English) Harvard senior who has resigned himself to going into the service ("When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it"), waxes cynical: "Students really have too good a deal. And with the tests, what you're doing is trying to decide what people have the right to die-and to do that on the basis of anything as arbitrary as intellect seems really wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Greeting | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...TILFORD C. GAINES, vice president of the First National Bank of Chicago: "The President would be well advised to have a tax bill introduced in Congress. If it is not needed by August, he can let it die. But if it is needed, then all the committee work will be done. As for the economy, defense spending will level off some time in the next year, and this will have a depressing effect. However, right now all evidence points to a continued upward trend in the months ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: WHAT THEY'RE SAYING | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...also chained himself to his work table for nights on end, compulsively churning out that prodigious torrent of words that is his own monument and literature's as well. Old Goriot, Lost Illusions, Louis Lambert, Droll Stories, Eugénie Grandet-these and other components of Comédie, his grand design, enjoy a special favor on the shelf of classics that not many others there can claim: they can be read today just for pleasure, by nonscholars, without respect to their literary pedigree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money, Magic & Love | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...contemporary, had "the face of a pantler, the general look of a cobbler, the girth of a barrelmaker, the manners of a hatter." Estimates of his work were hardly more flattering: Sainte-Beuve dismissed his style as "prolix and formless, slack." The author of La Comédie Humaine, that panorama of post-revolutionary France, died up to his chins in debt to his mother, wife, sister, mistress, gardener and the village constable in Ville-d'Avray. Now the world stands heavily in Balzac's debt, and in the 115 years since his death, dozens of doting biographies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money, Magic & Love | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...settle old scores and topple old foes. When he discovers that his servants are all government spies, that his secret papers are no longer secret, and that his power is nil, he decides that since he has been politically dead for years, he may as well relax and die physically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sample Simenon | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

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