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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip. In the end Eddie had to make the hard old choice between position and principle, between making a living and making a life. And so at last the rabbit got out of the trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Rabbit Trap was apparently intended as a sleeper, but seems likely to wind up as what the exhibitors call a caboose-the back end of a double bill. In a way, it's a pity. As a social prescription, the story proposes a too simple cure for conformism, but it provides, as a sort of fable for the times, a useful moral: not all rabbits have long ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Mercy & Damnation. In Calvin's theology, the prime attribute of God is transcendent sovereignty, and man's chief end is to know and glorify him. But by Adam's fall, man inherited utter depravity and corruptness-not only as a punishment, but also as a kind of disease, creating a condition for which eternal punishment is merited and just. "It is certain," wrote Calvin, "that in our body and soul there is in the eyes of God nothing but repulsive filth." But in his mercy, God has elected to save some by giving them the grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Great Reformer | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...fiery shadows of the open hearths, carry it into the Balkan Café and the Mill City Inn and Ernie's Steak House, hash it out in their homes. The crucial subject: the Pittsburgh Pirates, once the door mat of the National League but at week's end five games from first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: What the Workers Want | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...today pay $4.50 for a 100-lb. sack of mash that cost $2.38 then. "I personally do not believe in Government price supports or production controls.'' says New Jersey State Agriculture Secretary Phillip Alampi. ''but the poultry farmer, particularly in New Jersey, is the dead-end kid of American agriculture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Benson's Bad Eggs | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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