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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First off, Stevenson went to Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and a meeting of the New York County Lawyers' Association to paint, in terms of his "greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Guns Plus Butter | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...social science believe that this "modern" approach may eventually yield a new vision because it uses new technical and philosophical devices for organizing and formulating our insights into human nature. We cannot plausibly contend that a mere increase in the number of observers who can find publishers will expand this vision, unless social science can offer us a form which will give these multiple minor insights a cumulative effect. Without such a form, each insight will be returned to the society from which it sprang, without affecting that society or making possible a more significant future insight. Eventually...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Farnsworth Eulogizes Mental Health Movement, But Suggests Nothing New | 12/14/1957 | See Source »

...gangly TV veteran of 27, was disappointed from the start with George Bellak's TV adaptation of his original play. So Frankenheimer called in TV Author Rod (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Serling to doctor the script. With accomplished Actor Ben Gazzara to play the role, Frankenheimer wanted to expand the part of Stanley, the dead boy's roommate, who makes an effort to stop the fatal roughhouse, then suffers with a conscience-driven urge to tell all. "I want to be conscious of Benny Gazzara every minute," said Frankenheimer. "This is the most creative actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Backstage at Playhouse 90 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...lessened response toward the characters, and to a confusion of values in the play. What exactly is east, and what is west, in Wishengrad's pessimistic geography? What is pathology, and what is sin, and what is determinism? In any case, the more he tries to expand or universalize, the more special seems his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...preoccupation of collecting works of art is probably more widespread at the present than it has been at any time before. Significant collections of modern art are numerous and continue to expand even at this period of five and six digit prices. Art has become popular and even if diamonds are still a girl's best friend, Picasso turns out to be just as sound an investment...

Author: By Paul W. Schwartz, | Title: The Morgan Library | 11/27/1957 | See Source »

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