Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN word reached Australia that a major medical mystery involving a new and invariably fatal disease had appeared in the wilds of New Guinea, TIME sent Brisbane Correspondent Fred Hubbard after the story. A 1,400-mile flight to Port Moresby was only the first step. After that. Hubbard had to go by bush plane over forbidding razorback mountain ranges to a remote patrol post where a white man's back is still an inviting target to a savage spearman. At Okapa, Reporter-Photographer Hubbard got his story and pictures. For the results, see MEDICINE, The Laughing Death...
Survival Formula. Like most magazines of ideas, the Atlantic has sunk at times into near-fatal lethargy. In Jubilee (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a 100th anniversary winnowing of Atlantica published this week, Editor Weeks says that his magazine has survived because it has "changed editors more frequently than any other magazine in our field." Says Weeks: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger mind was brought...
...bank, like the Musical Bank in Samuel Butler's Erewhon, deals not only in money but in moral imponderables. For the Soviet banker, unbalanced books are a small matter, but the failure to balance the books of the sacred Marx-Lenin-Stalin writings may prove fatal. The action dissolves in a mirage of Marxist motivation: whom to bribe with what is the problem. Thus, to buy silence, the television set goes to a despised subordinate, a piano to someone else, a raccoon coat to a third. Simochka is saved, at the price of most of Daddy's worldly...
...bought nearly 350,000 copies (the U.S. equivalent of more than 1,000,000 sales) of a new novel by Franchise Sagan, and the best that can be said for it is that reading its proofs may have done her some good as occupational therapy following her recent near-fatal auto accident. Author Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile showed a certain flair and skill, gave many readers the intriguing sensation of observing precocious children playing grown-up games. In Those Without Shadows, the kids are a little older and they are no longer saying bonjour...
...people, it ought to do it ... It is not easy to say whether the community as a whole does not need protection from the private immoralities, whether of homosexuals or of heterosexuals." But, in sum, he doubted that a clear way could be found "by which, without fatal damage to the general principle of the report, adultery, fornication and homosexual offences could be effectively restrained by legal penalties...